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...changes are greatest in the early episodes, from childhood (seven) to adolescence (14) to early maturity (21). Later, the adventures are mostly domestic: the accretion and shedding of spouses, the raising of nuclear and post-nuclear families. You see waistlines growing, hairlines receding. You meet their children at birth, seven, 14 and 21. The series becomes less a window into their lives, more a mirror into ours. For it is only through the severest denial that we can think that they have grown older, been cramped diminished by life, while we have stayed miraculously young, rich in achievement, richer...
...March 7, 1956, when it was granted its charter from Harvard University to ‘present Gilbert and Sullivan to the Harvard community.’”It makes specific mention of a “more immediate lead-up to HRG&SP’s birth,” which was “due in part to a group of students in Winthrop House,” who regularly performed Gilbert and Sullivan libretti.An alternate tale appears in the Web site’s “Director and Historian Notes” section, written...
...year of Litvinenko’s birth, the Cold War reached its climax. JFK and Krushchev came very close to igniting a nuclear Apocalypse during the Cuban Missile Crisis, a couple of months before Alexander was born in a remote Russian village. After making a good impression with the intelligentsia at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he moved up in Soviet bureaucracy. In 1988, as dissent became pronounced all throughout Eastern Europe, Litvinenko joined the infamous KGB, the counter-intelligence agency and symbol of Soviet realpolitick in the West...
...obstacles he faces, Vilsack has several strengths as a candidate. Orphaned at birth in Pittsburgh and adopted and raised by an alcoholic mother, he offers just the kind of unique personal narrative that could help him connect with voters. He's been a popular governor, coming back from a 20-point deficit to win an upset victory in the gubernatorial race in 1998 - in the process becoming the first Democrat in 30 years to take the statehouse. He captured 53% of the vote in 2002 only two years before John Kerry narrowly lost the state to President Bush...
...Much of the debate over the possibility of widespread genocide in Iraq stems from differing interpretations of the 1948 United Nations convention on genocide. There, genocide is defined rather broadly as killing, seriously harming, restricting birth or attempting to destroy in whole or in part, "a national, ethnical, racial or religious group." Says University of Mary Washington's Stanton, "Anyone who says that's not happening in Iraq is burying their head in the sand." But others say the number of people in Iraq operating with the intention of eradicating people solely on the basis of their membership...