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...barely 7 a.m. but there's a man making an unholy racket just outside the half-timbered portico of venerable London department store Liberty's. "Oyez, oyez!" bellows Peter Moore, the capital's sole remaining town crier, vigorously swinging his hand bell. "This store is open for all your Christmas shopping needs...
...particular ceramics and semiconductors, will perfectly complement SEAS’s current presence in this field,” Spaepen said in the press release. Clarke did not wish to comment on his appointment. Both Hu and Clarke have also worked outside of academia—Hu at Bell Labs and Clarke at IBM—and both Venky and Spaepen believe these experiences will benefit their colleagues at SEAS. —Staff writer Alissa M. D’Gama can be reached at adgama@fas.harvard.edu...
...vote had originally been slated for Monday, but was rescheduled for 11 a.m. Wednesday, and then pushed back to 3 p.m. Just before 4.30 p.m. the shrill bell calling lawmakers into the assembly chamber shrieked across the stained thin carpeting of the halls of the Parliament building. But senior members of the Sunni Tawafuk bloc refused to enter the session, leaving the Speaker with little choice but to reschedule the vote for Thursday. "We want our demands met, and they have not been," said Omar Abdel-Sattar al-Karboole, a member of Tawafuk, as the bell rang. (See photos...
...once owned Golden West Savings and Loan. All three benefactors are represented directly or indirectly on the CAP board. Since 2005, the larger group of wealthy liberals, known as the Democracy Alliance, has also begun to contribute significant sums to the effort. Rob McKay, the heir to a Taco Bell fortune and chairman of the Alliance, says that between 30% and 50% of the Alliance's 107 wealthy members have given money to the Center for American Progress, or its political offshoot, the Center for American Progress Action Fund. (Corporate benefactors are not disclosed, though the center bars companies from...
...Maryland woman named Linda Tripp, who said her friend Lewinsky had had an affair with Bill Clinton, and that superlawyer Vernon Jordan was trying to land her a job to buy her silence in the ongoing Paula Jones sexual-harassment suit against the President. The story rang a bell with the prosecutors, who had been pursuing evidence that Jordan helped obtain a lucrative consulting contract for another Clinton pal who was a potential witness in the Whitewater land-deal probe. Starr's team had heard enough from Tripp to wire her up for a planned meeting on Jan. 13 with...