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...serene intimacy of a wood-paneled gallery at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, two slender violin bows dipped up and down against the backdrop of a 15th century Italian painting last Friday afternoon. The violinists, dressed elegantly in black with splashes of red and white, focused intently on the delicacy of their work. A small audience of museum-goers stood and perched on folding stools nearby, while others calmly perused the surrounding artwork. Even gallery security guards stretched their beats slightly to watch the performance. In adjoining rooms, the airborne cadences of concertos reached statues, portraits, vases, and painted panels...
...Harvard t-shirt and black fleece jacket, Lieutenant Colonel Mark E. Mitchell appears to fit in with the usual cast of undergraduates, TF’s and academics that populate Harvard Yard. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW] But as an Army Special Forces officer with 22 years of operational experience, the stories he tells reach far beyond the classroom. Mitchell is a member of the National Security Fellows program at the Harvard Kennedy School; one of 21 representatives of the U.S. military and civilian intelligence community that are participating in a year-long fellowship of study here at Harvard...
...hopefuls introduced themselves during a formal wear segment. Guanyi “Tony” Huang ’12 strutted across the stage in his version of creative black tie: jacket, tie, and boxers. Shirtless...
...Sweden is setting a good example: Prisons are not used to house users, but to deal with trafficking and the crimes attendant to the black market. Streamlined criminal procedures have greatly improved the performance and reduced the cost of taking traffickers out of the equation...Sweden can now boast annual drug use rates less than half the average in West and Central Europe. (Read "The Way Station for Europe's Cocaine...
...morning, Tim Kretschmer, a 17-year-old former student of Albertville Realschule entered the school's plain, white flat-roofed building wielding a 9mm Beretta and, as a police spokesman described it, "simply opened fire". On his rampage through classrooms and corridors, the youngster, clad in black combat gear and reportedly wearing a mask, killed nine pupils, all of them aged 14 or 15, and three women teachers, and injured seven others. One of the injured students died later at a hospital. See pictures of the aftermath of the Virginia Tech tragedy...