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...Gist: In the predawn hours of April 30, 1871, a group of attackers ambushed an encampment of Apaches in Aravaipa Canyon, outside the town of Tuscon. 144 people - overwhelmingly women and children - were slaughtered. This much we know at the outset of Shadows at Dawn, by Brown University historian Karl Jacoby. We also know who these attackers were, for the most part: an unlikely alliance of white settlers, Spanish-speaking landholders known as vecinos and members of an opposing tribe, the Tohono O'odham. But rather than tie these four groups' tales together into a standard history of what became...
...Undergraduate Council announced last night that it would be populating an advisory committee to evaluate current alcohol and amnesty policies as originally proposed in an April 2007 report on social clubs...
...expense.” Schrader instead delivered this as a vaudevillian punch line, holding out his cane and smiling as the stage went black.The energetic, ad-libbing cast makes the show a joy. Doomsaying beatnik Ian Malcolm (Mason Ross) punctuated pauses by jiggling his head and muttering inaudibly. Lex (April Camlin), the hyper-annoying computer nerd, carried her character’s emotional outbursts to the limits of human expression. Robert Muldoon (Connor Kizer) played every scene with a Sean Connery-ish accent and an insane excitement at the prospect of death. And of course Samuel L. Jackson?...
...Starr, who, while not politically active, was a conservative Republican. Holder never publicly endorsed that view but fanned it by drawing public attention to similar allegations in the Whitewater case: a prosecution witness had supposedly received payments by anti-Clinton philanthropist Richard Mellon Scaife to discredit the President. In April, Holder wrote to Starr, urging him to look into the matter, and then released the letter to the press. The accusation rested on shaky stories by questionable sources, but the DOJ's public spotlighting of it undercut Starr's credibility as he was trying to get to the bottom...
Bankers Holiday. United is adding daily nonstop flights from Washington's Dulles airport to the international banking capital of Geneva. If purchased by Dec. 3, for service after April 19, 2009, seats on the 6 p.m. flight Monday through Thursday cost $449; the same flight is $469 Friday through Sunday...