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...Post Register reported that Brad Stowell, a Boy Scouts leader, had molested not two boys, as had been previously reported in 1997, but two dozen. In a series of articles, the Register reported that the national organization of the Boy Scouts of America and a local chapter had hired two top Idaho law firms to seal court files related to the cases after settling with two of the victims. The Register also reported that the Boy Scouts of America failed to notify the parents of other known victims who were not included in the settlement. The series, which was entitled...
It’s stunning that, despite its scads of esoterica, Gnosticism, and descriptions of the minutiae of daily life and bureaucracy in Soviet Russia, Mikhail Bulgakov’s “The Master and Margarita” still manages to be captivating and hilarious, chapter after chapter. The plot begins simply enough. Satan decides to visit Moscow, arrives, and shortly thereafter decapitates one of the first people he meets—a man who, like all dutifully atheistic Soviets, refuses to believe in the Dark Lord’s existence. With a supernatural and motley crew that includes...
...poisoning him during the summer. Both sides have been doing their damnedest to bring people back to Kiev Independence Square, the heart of the Orange Revolution. But the enthusiasm of that moment has long given way to disenchantment and cynicism, and there's little enthusiasm for another chapter of political intrigue among the same cast of power brokers...
...concert, partially organized by Kevin J. Feeney ’08, will raise money for 826 Boston, the newest chapter of 826 National, a creative writing program founded in 2002 by Eggers...
...Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and, effectively, Prime Minister later that day merely made official what the country had known since Fukuda first threw his hat in the race. The two candidates fought over 528 votes - 387 LDP parliamentarian votes and 141 votes from the LDP's prefectural chapters - with Fukuda winning 330, a landslide. The charismatic Aso hoped to win over the prefectural votes when it became clear that most his fellow Diet members were casting their ballots for Fukuda in keeping with their faction bosses' orders. Aso came away with 46% of the chapter votes, but not enough...