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Irene L. Newton, a tutor in Winthrop House who is expecting a child in August, says that Harvard University Health Services (UHS) doctors were surprised by her choice to have a child...
...first foreign trip last August, a similarly busy four-day visit to Cologne for World Youth Day, Benedict was still getting used to his papal robes. Some of the faithful, with the memory of John Paul's passing fresh in their minds, were likewise still taking measure of their new leader's subtler persona. Now, more than a year into his papacy, there is a sense that this longtime behind-the-scenes Vatican figure has found his comfort zone under the public spotlight. This time he wasn't even scared off, as he was last August, when photographers and cameramen...
...really? What about "Masters of War," "The Times They Are A-Changin'" and a dozen others? Dylan not a political animal? At the August 1963 March on Washington, where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech, Dylan sang one of his few optimistic political numbers, "When the Ship Comes In," and Peter Paul and Mary sang the summer's hit "Blowin' in the Wind...
...This is a special problem we face," said August Hanning, who is in charge of tournament security for Germany's Interior Ministry. But organizers also say that the problem may be overblown. Crimes committed by far-right groups in Germany increased 24% this year, according to the new statistics released this week. But more than 90% of these far-right crimes were non-violent and political in nature, such as displaying swastikas and violating other post-war bans on Nazi propaganda. The number of racist attacks actually decreased last year. World Cup organizers insist that while neo-Nazis...
...accuracy and literary ambition. Though the author has adapted several of his 14 other novels for the screen, this time he stayed away. "Experience tells me that the writer usually is an uncomfortable presence at the filming," Pérez-Reverte says from his home near Madrid. (Spanish screenwriter Augustín Díaz Yanes wrote the script and directed it.) "The movie is excellent," says Pérez-Reverte. "It is cruel and hard and at the same time fascinating. I am very satisfied." Spain's Hollywood standard-bearer Antonio Banderas originally wanted to direct the film...