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...villa outside Havana when Ahmadinejad strides in without notice, taking even his aides by surprise. He is wearing blue-gray trousers, black loafers and the trademark tan jacket that even he calls his "Ahmadinejad jacket." He mutters something to himself as he settles into an aging leather chair with bad springs. For a moment, he seems irked by the chair, perhaps because it makes him seem even smaller than his 5 ft. 4 in., but soon he's smiling, prodding, leaning forward to make his points. "We are living our own lives," he says, when asked about his differences with...
...little need for them. Indeed, for the aristocrats who came here, Harvard was already a kind of carnival. Back in his day, one aristocrat enjoyed his. Today, perhaps we’ll be allowed to enjoy ours. Sahil K. Mahtani ’08, a Crimson associate editorial chair, is a history concentrator in Winthrop House...
...Lidice (totalburnout.cz/eng), which first instructs players to earn points by killing Czechs and burning houses. A few clicks later, there's a revelation that the Lidice massacre was anything but a game. When the Lidice Memorial director, Milous Cervencl, first saw it, he "almost fell off the chair." He endorses it now, but Lidice Mayor Vaclav Zelenka, 68, one of 17 children who survived the massacre, remains unimpressed: "I lost my father, two uncles, a 6-year-old girl cousin and a 13-year-old boy cousin. My mom passed through two concentration camps. My grandmother went to Auschwitz...
With the press, the President has been brimming over with restless energy. Rich Lowry of National Review, who was in a group of conservatives ushered onto the Oval Office couches and found the President to be "utterly self-assured," says the President nearly leaped out of his chair when he made some points. Lowry wrote that Bush untwisted what looked like a paper clip as he talked, "then twisted it around his finger until it was in a little bow." During a Rose Garden press conference, the President thrilled photographers with so many two-handed gestures--now up high...
...THIS CHAIR IS JUST RIGHT Former Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie kicks off a p.r. tour in support of his not-especially-tell-all memoir, Winning Right. The launch- party guest list includes Terry McAuliffe, former Democratic National Committee chairman--whose own book, What a Party, is due to be released in January. That book's tell-all proportions are unknown, but attendees overhear McAuliffe boasting that his book is "much thicker...