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...Tomorrow: Mark Warner funds the blogosphere blow-out, Arianna graces us with her presence. Also, blogs...
...used a televised briefing to walk a cautious line of taking credit while preparing the public for future trials. "We saw scenes of celebration in Iraq. Does this mean that happy days are here again? Of course not," he said. But Snow suggested that Zarqawi's death was "a blow to the morale of the other side" and might send a helpful message within Iraq. "We have been crushing the opposition," he said, "but what happens is, the opposition's been controlling the airwaves with scattered, fragmentary acts of violence. In this war, we can win on the ground every...
...article “a potent piece of hate creation.” And the University’s general counsel, Robert W. Iuliano ’83, wrote to Institutional Investor editors protesting the story’s portrayal of Summers.But those protests did not soften the blow that McClintick’s article dealt to Summers’ presidency.“It seems to me that the II piece was quite important in getting people in the Harvard community to see the whole story whole,” writes journalist David Warsh, who has covered the Shleifer...
...Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., found that patients who were prayed for without their knowledge fared no better than patients who were not prayed for, and patients who were aware of being prayed for actually experienced more complications.While on the surface the study may seem to deal a blow to religions that believe in the power of prayer, in a Mar. 30 teleconference, the researchers stressed that they were not reading too much into the conclusions of the study.“It’s not unusual to have unanticipated results in such studies,” said...
...Senior Class Committee made history this spring when it declared that a staffer of the Harvard Lampoon is actually funny. (OK, that’s a low blow.) Elizabeth S. Widdicombe ’06—a member of the Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine—will deliver the female Ivy Oration, the more humorous of the senior speeches, at Class Day exercises today. It’s clear that Widdicombe’s wit has already won over her friends...