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Daniel Snyder, 24, was arrested for trespassing on the University-owned residence and attempting to force open a door to the basement of Summers’ estate. He is being charged with trespassing and attempting to commit a crime, said Harvard University Police Department spokesperson Peggy McNamara, who did not know last night whether Snyder had been released from police custody...
Gleeson, nearing 90, continues to issue Surrealist thunderbolts from his Sydney studio; a retrospective due at the National Gallery of Victoria in October should confirm his Zeus-like status. "Do not commit suicide," Gleeson wrote in 1941, "for Surrealism has been born." It lives...
Reagan's instincts, like his rhetoric, evolved over the course of his two terms as the ground began shifting beneath him. After a decade of Presidents carefully talking detente, Reagan denounced the Soviet Union as the "evil empire" and accused its leaders of claiming "the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat." To armor such rhetoric, Reagan demanded and got a huge increase in U.S. defense spending. He nearly doubled defense spending during his first term while deploying medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe and battling communists in Central America. He rarely gave ground, and fumbles in foreign...
Following the decision not to prosecute, the only thing holding Leong at Lindemann was a set of civil commitment papers. According to Twohig, Leong formally signed himself in when he was sent to Lindemann for the second time, meaning that he could file a request to leave the center at any time with three days notice. During the three-day period, Lindemann could decide whether to file a civil action to commit Leong against his will...
...Allston science and technology task force, which was charged with considering the future of science at Harvard’s planned campus across the River, concluded that the University must commit to an ambitious expansion of engineering and several other scientific fields to stay competitive...