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...first time that Krawciw’s family has donated maps to the University—in 1978, they bequeathed 12,000 maps to Harvard. Seegel said the maps in Krawciw’s latest collection are written in nine different languages, show remarkable quality, and document vital historical changes that have made ripples in both art and history circles. The collection includes more than 20 maps by the 17th century French military engineer and cartographer Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan, whose works were used as “authoritative” depictions of Ukrainian borderlands for at least...
...burned his village in Sudan. Parentless, he walked hundreds of miles in search of safety. When he came to America as a young man, his problems started again. Don't read this novel--which is closely based on his life--for any reason other than it's a great document of hope, despair and the will to keep walking...
...Mittal proved a smarter tactician than his opponents. Because a formal takeover document needed to be acceptable to regulators in five different countries, it took four months to put the paperwork together. That allowed Arcelor time to rally shareholders in its defense. But then Dollé made an egregious error: he arranged for a Russian oligarch, Alexei Mordashov, to take a 30%-plus stake in Arcelor. "The day we received that news, we felt it was over for us," Mittal recalls. "The whole team was disappointed and somber." But when they looked at the Russian deal more closely, Mittal...
...assign only "politically qualified" lawyers to handle cases involving joint litigation by 10 or more plaintiffs or issues related to safeguarding rights. Lawyers taking such cases were ordered to "accept supervision and guidance" or else be subject to punishment. According to a lawyer involved in the drafting of that document, "the original was intended to increase protection for lawyers, but then higher authorities intervened and made it do just the opposite." The authorities' strategy, says Nicholas Becquelin, Hong Kong representative of New York-based Human Rights Watch, is a "tightening of administrative controls over lawyers on the one hand...
...Numbers 52 Number of times reconciliation was used in the Iraq Study Group's report 1 Number of times civil war appeared in the document 0 Times war on terror was used...