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...volcano 25 km from the ancient Indonesian city. Scientists warned that Merapi was ready to erupt, and thousands of villagers living on its slopes were evacuated as a precaution. So far Merapi hasn't blown. Instead, Yogyakartans discovered on Saturday that the real danger was the ground beneath their feet...
...outspoken critic of Summers, on Monday called Bok’s decision “a great appointment.”“There is no one who understands Harvard better, or would work longer hours, with greater integrity, to help get Harvard back on its feet,” Lewis wrote in an e-mail.And Kirby, Knowles’ successor and predecessor, called the next dean “an excellent choice.”For his part, Knowles on Monday expressed a Cincinnatus-like attitude to Bok’s selection.“It didn?...
...threw my head back, my feet came around, and I landed at a 45-degree angle. [The doctors] said if I had landed 1 centimeter to the left or right, I would have severed my spinal cord and drowned. What I did do was shatter two vertebrae [in the middle of my back], and they shattered into tiny little pieces. I felt the explosion in my stomach, the vertebrae shot right into my organs...
...There is no one who understands Harvard better, or would work longer hours, with greater integrity, to help get Harvard back on its feet,” Lewis wrote in an e-mail...
...similar confrontation took place last week when Republican senator John McCain delivered the commencement address at the notoriously liberal New School in New York City and was greeted by jeers and taunting from hundreds of students and faculty. With the senator seated just a few feet away, one graduating senior took the podium and announced, to loud applause, that “the senator does not reflect the ideals upon which this university was founded...