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...help shift the U.S. toward a more respectful, accommodating attitude to the rest of the world. While he will be speaking for many countries beside his own, for Blair to preach internationalism in Bush's Washington is an experiment in irresistible force meeting immovable object - with the fate of Messrs. Begg and Abbasi an early test case...
...this oft-told tale another Founders myth, like Washington's confessing to axing his father's cherry tree? The latest skepticism is voiced in a quirky new book, Bolt of Fate (Public Affairs), that calls the whole thing a hoax, echoing the spoofs Franklin confected for Poor Richard's Almanack. But author Tom Tucker's evidence is slim. He makes much of the improbability of flying a kite weighted down by a heavy key, ignoring Franklin's long history of kite flying, and of his delay in publicizing the experiment, though only three months elapsed. More to the point, scientific...
...mails speculating on the fate of the guards circulated on House open lists, the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) held a rally that attracted a small but enthusiastic crowd of students and union members to the front of the Holyoke Center on Monday afternoon to protest the outsourcing of those jobs...
Concerns over the security guards’ fate prompted an outpouring of support from various constituents of the Harvard community...
...movie studio wanted Rock Hudson to play Atticus Finch. Fate decreed otherwise. Gregory Peck got the role of the small-town Southern lawyer in the 1962 film version of To Kill a Mockingbird. The hero of Harper Lee's Pulitzer-prizewinning novel had been a man much like her father, and when the author met the actor on the first day of shooting, she noted, "Gregory, you've got a little potbelly just like my daddy." The star replied, "Harper, that's great acting...