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...bringing home live chickens for the Sabbath meal; David Ben-Gurion looking like a defiant Moses. Yitzhak Rabin, Moshe Dayan, Golda Meir, Ariel Sharon - Rubinger photographed them all in unguarded moments, stripped of the trappings of high office. He catches Meir worrying about a pot on the stove; Menachem Begin on an airplane, bending over to help his wife put on her shoe; the great warrior Dayan gazing at his formidable father Shmuel with a mixture of reverence and rebellion...
...Harris also said the the most represented area of the roughly 40 proposals received has been the humanities. “It’s pretty obvious you’re not going to map out any curriculum from scratch,” said Professor Laurel Ulrich, who will begin teaching “Pursuits of Happiness” next fall. “It also seems like a terrible waste of resources to throw out courses that are working. ... It’s a question of what students are required to do and where the emphasis is going...
...shares a compound with the Mysore Mandala Yogashala. Just before sundown, a batch of eight students - all foreigners - are beginning their evening session with a Sanskrit mantra invoking Patanjali, the sage who compiled the Yoga Sutras, expounding ashtanga, or eight-limbed, yoga philosophy. The room is dimly lit and already slightly clammy when the students begin huffing and puffing their way through ten repetitions of surya namaskara, or sun salutation, the opening asana. Within a few minutes, their bodies are glistening with sweat as they flex themselves into scary positions, sometimes tugged and pushed by the teacher, all apparently impervious...
...Starting Tuesday, a group of conservative activists led by Floyd Brown, author of the famous Willie Horton ad used so effectively against Michael Dukakis in 1988, will begin a campaign to tar Obama as weak on crime and terrorism, a strategy that aims to upend Obama's relatively strong reputation among Republican voters...
Texas social workers will begin conducting DNA tests today to identify the 416 children taken into custody from the fundamentalist Mormon ranch near Eldorado since April 3. A district court judge granted the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (TDFPS) permission to test the children last Friday, as the agency's custody workers continued to struggle with the serious, complicated task of determining which children belong to whom - a task further clouded by the fact that children and mothers gave evasive, shifting answers during interviews...