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...facelift, which cost $44 milion, has blown the cobwebs off. A giant spyhole has been cut in the first floor to reveal two levels at once. The 3,000 exhibits, dating from 1500 to 1900, are assembled by topics such as birth, family and death. Baby things, wedding gowns and funeral tapestries bring people of the past back to life. And it's no longer "Look, don't touch." Visitors can assemble an 18th century chair or try their hands at tapestry weaving...
Furthermore, the win came after the Crimson played a game against the University of Toronto on Saturday, the fifth consecutive weekend with games on back-to-back days. Last weekend, Harvard was blown out by Providence 6-0 after defeating Brown the previous night...
...silent accusations and deflected anguish. But that watchful waiting has a curiously instructive, ultimately hypnotic effect; this, one thinks, is really the way middle-class America hides its hurts. And those silences render more powerful the explosive confrontation between the grieving parents, in which a lifetime's evasions are blown away. They also make the movie's violent conclusion all the more startling, yet utterly right...
...Then came Sept. 11, and the antiglobalists were "blown off the stage," in the words of American radical and online writer L.A. Kauffman. And it wasn't just that the press and TV cameras moved on to a bigger story. The very language and symbolism of some antiglobalist protest - the calls to smash capitalism, the angry young men with their faces covered in bandanas - have taken on a whole new meaning in the wake of a terrorist attack on the heart of the global financial system. Some politicians have gone so far as to use the attacks to discredit...
...special-operations man glanced up at the cloud and shouted, "Incoming shrapnel--get down!" As the dust cloud cleared, a U-shaped hole the size of a small swimming pool appeared in the wall next to the northeast tower. The tank had flipped onto its back, its gun turret blown off. Alliance soldiers, bleeding, coated in dust, began sliding down the side of the fort and staggering across the surrounding cotton fields. "It missed," said a soldier named Afiz, blood dripping from his eyes and ears. "I don't know where my friends are." From under the fort's entrance...