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Many parents said they were pleased with the weekend’s activities, despite a Saturday rainstorm that prompted the National Weather Service to issue flood warnings for much of the region...
...immediately after the war, and 40,000 over the next decades - and return them to their rightful owners. But some art slipped past Valland's gimlet eye; the Nazis amassed so much loot that they had to set up other clearing houses to process the flood of paintings and objects, many of which belonged to Jewish families killed in the Holocaust. Some of the art changed hands many times; Nazis collected and traded "degenerate" art - Picasso and the Impressionists - for earlier works they deemed more "Aryan...
Sophomore attacker Sara Flood was the other standout of the afternoon with two goals and three assists for Harvard...
...Diplomats also believe that China has recently been pressuring North Korea to stem the flow of refugees. "Beijing wanted to nip in the bud, before the Olympics, any chance that the number of refugees would turn into a flood this year," says one diplomat who has followed the issue. "They've really tried to crack down on the border." Beijing isn't motivated purely by image concerns prior to Beijing 2008. The manufacturing economy in China's northeast, home to many state-owned companies, has slowed. "The Chinese already have plenty of surplus labor in that part of the country...
...public with the city.”At the Feb. 11 council meeting, Annis said Harvard’s construction workcaused his foundation to sink—resulting in the cracks in his walls—and damaged the exterior of his house when it was struck by a flood of slurry, a material used to hold back dirt during excavations.Other Riverside residents at the meeting complained that they felt excluded from the decision-making process surrounding the Cowperthwaite project.Construction began on the six-story Cowperthwaite apartments in 2005, as part of the University’s initiative to provide...