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...portraits of Hav's labyrinthine Medina, its precious snow raspberries, its grueling annual "roof race" and the official trumpeter who woke the locals every morning with a tune dating from the First Crusade made the place indelible in the annals of travel. "Hav had seemed to me a little compendium of the world's experience, historically, aesthetically, even perhaps spiritually," Morris writes in her introduction to the new book, "and could surely never be the same place again." An understatement. The old Hav was bombed to rubble in the 1985 Intervention that led to the current religious regime...
...announced it will be giving tours explaining works of art mentioned therein. 60 Minutes got Ed Bradley to huff and puff about ripping the lid off the Priory of Sion fraud, which was very old news indeed. (I'd read about a month earlier in that hard-hitting compendium of investigative reporting, Fodor's Guide to the Da Vinci Code.) The TV news networks have lavished Scott Peterson-type coverage on the film's imminent release. Last week, producers for Bill O'Reilly's nightly show on Fox asked on two separate days if I'd come on and talk...
...Fitzgerald's filing says that Vice President Cheney told Libby "that the President specifically had authorized" him "to disclose certain information" in the National Intelligence Estimate, the government's most authoritative compendium of what was known about Hussein's arsenal in the prelude to war. The White House didn't say anything publicly on Thursday, when the filing became big news after first being disclosed by the New York Sun, but the Republican National Committee published a document that seemed intended to justify what Libby alleged the President did. The document has a section headed, "The President and Vice President...
...book they can't keep their hands off is Spotless, a guide to household cleaning - and an unexpected blockbuster. Launched in December with a modest first print run of 12,000, the paperback compendium of "solutions to domestic disasters" has been reprinted 10 times and sold 138,000 copies; according to Nielsen BookScan, it's spent 15 weeks on the Top 10 bestsellers list, three of them at No. 1. "It's our best-selling title ever," says Jane Finemore, of publisher ABC Books. "Other titles have sold more than 100,000 copies, but over several months or years...
...residential tutors are often willing to discuss the latest University news and can add a new perspective to students’ discussions. The resources to stay informed at Harvard are abundant. On the issue of the curricular review, University Hall has also reached out to students, distributing a compendium of committee recommendations in dining halls a few weeks ago.Clearly, knowledge of a particular situation is a prerequisite for delving into debate or advocacy on student needs. Currier House co-Master Joseph Badaracco wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson, “[I]t will be much easier...