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...flags of either country. On the apples of their cheeks, most marchers wore the three-leaf clover stickers that had been handed out by embassy employees. When Bai Nian students asked their chaperone if the stickers were of Ireland's national flower, the amused teacher could only think to explain that the shamrock is "a type of grass...
...mounted moose heads. In other words, it's a party space. In one of the oaky rooms, the Los Angeles artist Eduardo Sarabia has opened a tequila bar. He made the blue-and-white-ceramic bar stand. He made the bottles. He even made the tequila. The press materials explain that it's not just a bar but an installation that "celebrates collaborative dialogue and community." In other words, a bar. You provide the hangover, your very own contribution to the "social performance" artwork...
Harvard reacted quickly to the 1970 UNESCO convention, according to Ebbinghaus. A committee drafted acquisition standards that were accepted by the university one year later, which may explain why Harvard has not yet faced a large public claim on its objects. The document stipulated that curators should make sure that their acquisitions had not been illicitly imported or exported in the recent past and established that the museum should know an object’s history at least as far back as July...
Abigail E. Schiff ’11, a board member of the Progressive Jewish Alliance, said that Livni did not provide a satisfactory response to explain the expansion of settlements...
...hour melodrama sparked by revelations that he had been a client of a prostitution ring. Thus ended a public career that had once seemed promising enough that Spitzer was discussed as a potential 2012 Democratic presidential nominee. Spitzer apologized for his "private failings," but he said nothing to explain why he would have thrown it all away, why he risked so much. He had built a reputation as an ethical crusader, and as a former prosecutor, he knew well the myriad electronic and surveillance tools that reveal hidden arrangements for crimes like prostitution. Just last year, Spitzer had signed...