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Moscow’s Danilov Monastery lost its original bells when the Soviet Union sold them to American businessman Charles Crane, who in turn donated them to Harvard...
...bells were donated to Harvard in 1930 by American industrialist Charles R. Crane, who bought them from the Soviet Union, which took the bells from the monastery in the 1920s as part of its campaign against the Church...
Generally we are not the sort of people who have our home crepe-papered by cheerleaders. However, late last summer my brother—despite having played only pick-up games of touch football, despite being built a lot like Stephen Crane, despite a congenital wussiness—decided to become the kicker for our high school’s varsity football team. As a senior gridder, he was assigned his very own cheerleader. Her name, according to the posters she scotch-taped to my brother’s mirror, is Shelli. According to age-old tradition, she was obliged...
...starters, there are the astonishingly good cultural amenities and nightlife. If I crane my neck out my 10th floor window, I can see three nightclubs, a couple of solid restaurants, two world-renowned art museums (in buildings brilliantly designed by Louis Kahn), and Louis’ Lunch, the tiny shack where, in 1900, the first hamburger was served in America. The opportunities are even more remarkable given the city’s size—in population the New Haven metropolitan area clocks in just behind such ravishing destinations as Wichita, Kan. and Wilmington...
...dock of Abu Fulus port, 20 miles south of Basra, Bassem Saghair deftly works the controls of a crane as he unloads air-conditioning units from the hold of the Hussaini. The ship is one of a dozen crowding the waterfront that have sailed from Dubai up the Shatt al-Arab River laden with consumer goods. Saghair, 15, quit school for this job, which pays $360 a month, double the highest salary any Iraqi official earns from U.S.-occupation authorities. "Life is not bad," says Saghair, with a shy smile spreading under the beginnings of a mustache...