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...have been the victims in a large scam," the brothers said in a statement. They added their "rollercoaster of emotion" since Saturday, when their father strolled into a police station in central London, has taken them "from the height of elation at finding him alive to the depths of despair at the recent stories of fraud and these latest pictures." The statement also said they "want no further contact" with their parents...
...enough breathing room for all, but hardly a spare seat in the room. A black-cloth backdrop and simple lighting allowed the audience to focus on the movement of the dancers. Out of the 11 pieces, the standouts were “Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair,” “Eat Pray Love,” and “Teanga Eile/Second Tongue.” “Twenty Love Poems” featured Daniela F. Joffe ’10 and Merritt A. Moore ’10 in a ballet-inspired...
...together no matter how different we are, because this is a war between labor and management, between teleprompter and teleprompted. So let’s be grateful that our chosen representatives are, unlike most writers, far too rich and stubborn to give up their strike out of poverty or despair. They have gagged America’s voice—and they have found their...
...said of the anti-war environment at Harvard. “I think people feel, for various reasons, powerless at times.” Echoing his favorite Joan Baez quote, Usmani said, “To my mind, the only antidote to this kind of despair is organizing, is action.” Echoing his favorite Joan Baez quote, Usmani said, “To my mind, the only antidote to this kind of despair is organizing, is action.” “People need to take that to heart at Harvard,” he added. Despite...
Through most of the 19th century the Aborigines were driven off their ancestral lands by settlers, and when they resisted, they were killed. Many more died of disease or social despair. Nobody knows how many because no one bothered to count either the living or the dead; the whites were engaged in the more important task, as the history books used to say, of "nation building." By the end of the 19th century it was assumed that the natives would soon be extinct, and the whites' only task was "to smooth the dying pillow...