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Calkins and other University officials have said that the request to end the blanket policy on loans stems from criticism over Harvard's disclosure last February of the sale of $51 million of loans and certificates in Citibank, whose parent company had made loans to South Africa for apparently humanitarian purposes...
...thousands. Normal activity in Nigeria's capital of Lagos all but stopped, as streets filled with crowds of well-wishers bearing pennants and portraits of the Pope. Fully half the population of Bata, capital of tiny Equatorial Guinea, came out to greet him and threw palm branches to blanket his path. In neighboring Gabon, a special residence for the Pontiff was built in two weeks. Even the Marxist state of Benin fell under the spell, as posters with Bible quotations went up next to Communist slogans...
...decades. All movement stopped. I could gaze out of my suite and see the stone buildings and wall of the gaze out of my suite and see the stone buildings and wall of the Old City of Jerusalem with the Mount of Olives behind in an eerie white blanket against a gray horizon. It was a spectacular scene, one of utter peace. But I hated to think how Aswan, which had never seen a blizzard, would react to a delay allegedly caused by inability to move about in Israel's seat of government...
...gave him any business after that day in 1955 when he stood on the steps of the county court house and vowed that Kanawha County schols would damn well integrate; two years later his son Thomas Scott Bell was born and Ralph still slept with a pistol under his blanket, the same one he would use to blow his brains out with, six months to the day after taking out a $250,000 insurance policy that would send his own son to Cambridge, six months being the required time period before suicide could be considered a legitimate cause of death...
...cuddliness, the softness of cats." Reporter-Researcher Georgia Harbison, who contributed much of the reporting for the cover, provides a home for Victoria, a ten-year-old Persian Angora with silky white hair and green eyes. Fond though she is of Victoria, Harbison stops short of a blanket endorsement of the whole species. Says she: "Victoria is not like a lot of other cats. She is extremely affectionate, and she'll flirt with strangers because she wants to be petted." Any such offerings of affection are wasted on Senior Editor William F. Ewald, who edited the story. Says Ewald...