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Administrative Assistant to the Dean of Freshman Lorri A. McDaniel said the possibility of housing first-years in Apley Court was "not a fait accompli...
Fenway, which dates back to 1912, will be the next to fall, if only because Boston sees another Camden Yards knockoff as a fait accompli. There are a few holdouts, most notably Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy, but he's up against no less a personage than Ted Williams, who says, "I would not be sentimental about moving into a new ball park." And you won't find any Fenway supporters on the current Red Sox, either. "Blow it up," slugger Mo Vaughn said one day last year. "Blow the damned place up." The Red Sox may as well...
...with him, 10,000 paintings and calligraphies, more than half a million objects, rare books and documents, in some 4,000 crates--an act of cultural looting (in Taiwan, read: salvage) that had few equals before and has had none since, though it is pointless to criticize such a fait accompli nearly 50 years later. Who knows what might have happened to the art at the hands of the Red Guards, for instance? Since then the whole vast collection has remained in the National Palace Museum in Taipei, carefully conserved but stingily displayed. Thirty-five years ago, a sampling...
...acrobatics, only a careful scrutiny of the historical record. As theorists have long since suggested, the elevation of whiteness above blackness in America's northern cities originated in economic greed, developed into wage competition, and then sustained itself with bogus 'race' theories only after black degradation was already a fait accompli...
...Washington's blueprint works, and that remained dicey, the rough disposition of peoples that is now a fait accompli, thanks to the Croatian army's blitz through the Serb-held Krajina region, would serve as defensible territories for coexistence. One thorn in this rose may really sting the Muslim-led government in Sarajevo: a suggested abandonment of Gorazde, the remnant republic's last outpost in the east, in exchange for Serb concessions of greater breathing space around Sarajevo itself. In turn, the U.S. would lead its allies in committing substantial reconstruction aid to Bosnia and, most important, some...