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...wrote in an e-mail last night that the focus will be “imagining creative possibilities, not anticipating [financial] limitations.” After the committee makes its final recommendations in early fall 2009, Cohen said that funds to implement the plans will come from the central administration and dedicated fundraising. “President Faust and Mass Hall are extremely committed to this project,” she wrote, “so the committee’s job is to come up with dynamic ideas, not to worry about paying for them.” Cohen...
...shadow of the crumbling courtyard. Six P.M now in Petersburg.”Docx’s St. Petersburg is a living city imbued with the qualities of its gloomy, exotically seedy history. As much as the novel revolves around the dead Maria—who, however central to the plot, is always peripheral to the character immediately at hand—it also revolves around St. Petersburg and what the city represents. Even in a description of heavy machinery, Docx evokes the city’s ominous milieu: “The crane outside the window had begun...
...outshine those of his less famous contemporaries. The exhibit gets off to an impressive start in the first room, featuring six works from El Greco. “View of Toledo,” one of his few secular works, depicts the artist’s adopted home in central Spain. El Greco’s heavy application of paint compresses the landscape and creates a personal view of the city that evokes the mystical qualities of his religious works. The portraits in the second room were created as tools of state which depict images of ideal monarchs. Philip?...
...Richard Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs at the U.S. State department, says he hopes Islamabad has learned from the mistakes made in the 2006 deal. "Ultimately you have to be prepared to use military force to enforce the agreement," he says. The problem is that the militants know that, too, and may well intend to use the cease-fire to bulk up in preparation for that enforcement...
Justice has been a central issue to the peace talks. While still hunting the rebels with his army, Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni asked the International Criminal Court to investigate the LRA for war crimes. It did so and has charged Kony and several of his commanders. Since the talks began in 2006, the rebels have, in turn, said they wouldn't sign until the ICC charges were dropped. Much to the ire of human rights activists, alternatives to the ICC's justice were agreed upon - everything from procedures in Ugandan courts to traditional reconciliation rituals. But, as the delay...