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...Valenti, who died Thursday at 85 from complications of a stroke, seemed a good fit for that antique era. A hardscrabble Texas kid who at 14 had worked as "an usher in a second-run theater in Houston called the Iris," he flew 51 combat missions for the Air Force in World War II, got a Harvard M.B.A. on the GI Bill and hooked up with a back-home politician named Lyndon Johnson. Valenti was the Vice President's press rep on a trip to Dallas in November 1963 and stood next to him on the flight back to Washington...
...Welcome to the era of the public genome...
...million U.S. embassy, a small city of low-slung, thick concrete buildings with small windows on the banks of the Tigris. When it's finished this fall, the new compound will be the largest embassy ever built. Nearly all U.S. personnel will move out of the Saddam-era Republican Palace and a nearby warren of temporary trailers, where they currently live. In making the move, the U.S. aims to shrink its massive security cordon and hand the marble-floored halls of the palace back to the Iraqis...
...comprehensive selection of artifacts from Kelso's digs is on display in a $4.9 million facility known as the Archaearium that opened at Historic Jamestowne last May. His team is now excavating beneath the Civil War--era earthen fort that rises in the middle of James Fort in search of the colony's earliest church--just in time for Jamestown's 400th-birthday celebration...
...play two games at the Big Green’s Red Rolfe Field in Hanover, N.H. on Saturday, and then trek down to O’Donnell Field for a second doubleheader on Sunday.Harvard will once again look to its pitching staff and its Ivy League leading 4.52 combined ERA to guide the team to victory, although Walsh may not use the Crimson’s standard weekend rotation.While the Harvard skipper normally sends out freshman Max Perlman and junior Brad Unger on Saturdays, followed by rookie Eric Eadington and junior Shawn Haviland on Sundays, Walsh expects...