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...three minutes and 19 seconds of equine magic. By taking the 3,200-m Melbourne Cup in 2003 and 2004, Makybe had become one of just five dual winners in the 144-year history of Australia's best-loved horse race. None had managed the elusive hat trick. So on Nov. 1 the 106,480 people at the Flemington track (and around 10 million Australian television viewers), many of them teaming blue-and-red Makybe caps and masks with their feathers and ties, were more nervous than the favorite, who was characteristically unfazed by the heat and fuss. She didn...
...investigation of the Sicilian mafia led to a failed attempt on her life when in 1988, when a half-ton of explosive was discovered in the foundation of her home in Palermo, Italy. In 1999, Del Ponte was named chief prosecutor of the International War Crimes Tribunal. Her dual responsibilities in this role have been addressing allegations of genocide in Rwanda and in the Former Yugoslavia. In her speech last night, Del Ponte said ICTY has had “considerable success” and has “contributed greatly to the cause of justice” by indicting...
...reasons. One, Rice notes in an afterword that since 1998 she has been a passionate Catholic. And two, it was Rice's profound earnestness, her unwinking commitment to the material, that brought such power to her handling of vampires (who, like Jesus, one could argue, are beings of a dual, quasi-human nature). At the time vampires were in danger of sliding into camp, and they needed her earnestness. Jesus, not quite so much...
...named to lead Harvard’s faculties during his four-year tenure, five have come from within Harvard.The central issues likely to face the next dean of HBS include defining the fundamental meaning of a graduate business education, resolving the conflict between the school’s dual purpose as a center for academic research and as a professional school, and addressing the school’s growing international role.And because the HBS deanship holds such a respected place in business academia, the new dean’s leadership will extend far beyond the school’s campus...
...Council, with several new members elected in May, emerged from last semester with a renewed sense of its dual purpose of advising Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby and acting as the Faculty’s only elected representatives...