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...search for a new director for the Harvard University Art Museums is nearing an end, over a year after its long-time director announced that he would depart the museums for a new position in London...
...long as he lives in Liberia, he stays President. As long as he doesn't leave, we will attack him." On Aug. 7, Taylor pledged in a letter to congress that he would step down from the presidency on Aug. 11, but he refused to say when he would depart the country. Nearly everybody wants him out. President Bush has set Taylor's departure as a condition for any large-scale deployment of American peacekeepers, though seven arrived on Aug. 6 to coordinate logistics with the West Africans. Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has offered Taylor asylum from a war-crimes...
...managed student and account services. Steen also listed departures from the Instructional Computing Group and the Student Services and Client Services Group. And a member of the three-man Unix personnel—responsible for keeping the servers running and for the upgrades to Linux—will soon depart...
...first time I met Norman Lewis, the great intrepid traveler of our times was rubbing his hands together. He was already well into his 80s, but he was about to depart for a part of Irian Jaya where the last Western visitors-missionaries-had, he said, been eaten. "I can't wait to go and hear more about that great evangelical feast," he said, mixing, as he often did, drollness with real spirit...
...Despite the difficulties of visiting the most Plutonic of all continents, nearly 15,000 people a year make the schlepp. Antarctica stands at the lofty apex of adventure travel; it is the loudest of holiday boasts. Ninety-seven percent of its visitors depart from the southernmost Argentine port of Ushuaia, where about 20 international tour operators sell cruises on 100-meter ice vessels, each carrying about 100 passengers. Other trips leave from Christchurch, New Zealand; Hobart, Tasmania; and South Africa's Cape Town. All offer a beguiling array of experiences from close-up views of mothballed whaling stations to courtesy...