Word: alberts
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...King Albert II has asked the country's caretaker Prime Minister, Guy Verhofstadt, to seek a solution to Belgium's existential crisis. Yet that task seems sapped of any great urgency as life goes on without a national government. The trains run on time, the beer flows cold and plentiful, and the Belgian national soccer team still can't score. The drifting apart of Belgium's linguistic communities could augur the end for a country once hailed as a model of compromise and coexistence. Hoeilaart's elders have clearly had enough of that model. But no one knows what...
...International Activist Award will be presented to Sakena Yacoobi, founder of the Afghan Institute of Learning, at the Kennedy School tomorrow. “The agreement was signed back in 1996,” Rosché said, adding that it came out of a close relationship with Albert Carnesale, who served as dean of the Kennedy School from 1991 to 1995. Rosché said she hopes the gift will help expand the activities of the Center for Public Leadership. “It’s really going to be their show from now on,” she said...
...mathematician, but the discoveries by the forebears of the craft have done a pretty good job holding up over time. Isaac Newton showed us gravity. Albert Einstein taught us that everything is relative. And Euclid, the most famous mathematician of all, predicted a Harvard victory tomorrow in the 124th edition of The Game.He didn’t explicitly say Yale would lose, but it’s easy to extrapolate from one of his most basic geometrical rules: no physical object can be one-dimensional.And so go the hopes of the Bulldogs, a team that enters The Game riding the legs...
...exemplified, in varying levels of toxicity, by Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce and Johnny Carson). Young comics of the '70s were as suspicious of Vietnam humor as they were of mother-in-law jokes. Their stuff was apolitical--but radical. It challenged the very notion of making people laugh. When Albert Brooks impersonated a mime so inept he must describe his movements, or Andy Kaufman turned on a plastic record player and lip-synched to the Mighty Mouse theme song, the laughter was uneasy or unheard. Audiences were forced to wonder: Is this supposed to be funny? And that was funny...
...ignored the displacement of people in Sudan, the U.S. has done little about the refugees that Arab states have created, whether they are in Sudan, Syria, Lebanon or the Palestinian territories. But neither China nor the U.S. is responsible for the refugees. Only Arabs can stop this human tragedy. Albert Reingewirtz, Narberth...