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Green and Bastone launched the smokinggun.com with the intention, as Bastone puts it, of "paving a paper trail." The site has a retro look (thanks to Bastone's wife Barbara Glauber, who designed it) and a cheeky sensibility, but the real hook is the documents it obtains through the Freedom of Information Act, among them court records, FBI files and blueprints. "We had no idea how to do bells and whistles," recalls Bastone, sitting in a living room that mirrors the olive-and-orange palette of the site. Their operation has no office, and Green concedes that their "L.A. correspondent...
...while the details of Harvard's new initiative are largely undeveloped, Narayanamurti's implementation of the previous proposal at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) may provide clues as to what Harvard's similar institute will look like...
...flavor may be similar, but they're different institutions and different locations--in Santa Barbara, you're in California, and Santa Barbara is a compact city," Narayanamurti says. "It could be quite similar in that it has a strong flavor in engineering and computer science, but Santa Barbara has no business school...
...intellectuals of his own set." To kick off his campaign, Mailer wrote an open letter to Fidel Castro, praising the Cuban Revolution and asking Castro to request that Hemingway return to Cuba. Mailer finally started to come apart at the seams during his campaign. He struck his sister Barbara across the face in an argument, breaking her glasses. After an evening of drunkeness and ill-humor, Mailer stabbed his wife twice, narrowly missing her heart. But his family and wife protectively covered up the incident, and he escaped the incident with his reputation mostly intact and receiving only probation...
...Barbara Isaac, assistant director of the Peabody, told the Associated Press the museum has spent $7 million on repatriation issues so far. Last year, the museum's repatriation staff was expanded from four...