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...brazen heist took place at 4:30 in the afternoon, while 15 visitors strolled around three floors of the vine-covered villa. The masked thieves, including one who witnesses said spoke German with a Slavic accent, ordered the museum staff at gunpoint to lie on the floor. They then stripped the wall of the downstairs salon of four paintings, considered to be among the museum's most expensive, says the museum's curator, Lukas Gloor. The heist took less than three minutes and nobody was hurt...
...issue on the docket for this meeting is Q reform. The Faculty’s plan would, among other things, make course evaluations mandatory for all courses with five or more students and make course grades available early to students who have submitted course evaluations. Other issues on the floor include creating a PhD program in film and visual studies, and making articles published by faculty members available for free. These issues, each of which we have previously endorsed, ought to be passed as efficiently and speedily as possible...
...have to do something to make it interesting.” Lamont’s studious atmosphere means that prospective neckers can even hide in plain sight. Campus sex blogger Lena Chen ’09 says that she once smooched with a gay friend on the third floor of Lamont without anyone noticing. But campus kissing is hardly confined to the libraries. Mellor says that “little study rooms, tunnels, and all sorts of classrooms” make for some of the best kiss-friendly nooks. One key to maintaining a sense of romance, Mellor says...
Satterfield is underrating the Mahdi Army's boss. I met Moqtada al-Sadr in November 2003 at his office down a narrow alleyway in Najaf. We sat on pillows on the floor and he answered my questions with short, perfunctory statements. Barely 30, he had a round face, broad shoulders and a habit of glaring at guests beneath his thick, black eyebrows. He came across as menacing yet dull. At the time, he was holding massive Friday-afternoon prayer rallies that he populated with poor workers bused in from the slums of Sadr City in Baghdad 100 miles...
...losses virtually disqualify a team from contending for the conference title—Harvard, led by its junior core of Housman, Harris, and Andrew Pusar, played a woeful first half offensively and defensively, spotting the Bears a 37-16 cushion. The Crimson shot just 22 percent from the floor and logged one assist against eight turnovers, while Brown converted field goals at a 56 percent clip. The team’s youngsters, most notably Blankenau and Fitzgerald, helped to keep the deficit in the 20-point range down the stretch. “We dug ourselves a deep hole?...