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Last Friday, under a perfect Cantabridgian sky (magically arranged, of course), academically distinguished men and women garbed in hooded, harlequin robes marched down the middle aisle of Tercentary Theatre to crown a new leader. As the parade began, masses of eager students and onlookers clustered in the audience around flags emblazoned with their Houses to join in the festivities. There was an exchange of silver keys, and the President sat in a magical chair that conferred great power upon him. Meanwhile, a redbrick gate outside carefully concealed the proceedings from the oblivious Muggle passersby...
...says she is confident that Harvard faculty will be attracted to the interdisciplinary medium Radcliffe provides and will be eager to participate in the Institute’s research, either as fellows or more informally...
Though she says that she does not have a specific timeline for the proposed changes, Newman says that she is eager to implement change...
...October is watermelon season, so the men buy armfuls of the melon to take home. Everywhere you look, everyone seems to be eating watermelon, scooping out the juicy flesh with eager fingers. The more fortunate also suck pomegranate seeds or lick Mars Bar wrappers tossed by foreign journalists who brought them from Dushanbe, the capital of neighboring Tajikistan...
...spread across western Pakistan and most of Afghanistan, are moving to bring back Mohammed Zahir Shah, the deposed Afghan King who is living in Rome. In high-walled and guarded villas, these elders receive a stream of whispering chieftains, Afghan ex-army generals, mujahedin commanders and Pakistani officials--all eager recruits for an uprising against the Taliban. "It's happening so fast," says Hamad Karzai, an influential Afghan Pashtun elder who is backing the ex-monarch's return. "The signals for a change are coming from inside the Taliban...