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...Faust, and his tailoring of the project to Faust’s own interest in the arts, is an indication of Rockefeller’s belief in the current University president. It is important that the University has a president and administration that donors believe will be able to follow through on their visions...
...sources stress they have as yet heard nothing concrete from the FARC. Meanwhile, the American hostages follow a dismal routine, say Pinchao and other recently released hostages. They are forced into days-long marches to new camps when the FARC fears the military is close. Their rice-and-bean meals are varied only when they're near a river or an area where wild pigs roam, and they often fight illnesses like hepatitis with only poorly trained nurses to treat them. (The FARC refuses visits by Red Cross medical teams.) Pinchao, 37, says Stansell taught him how to swim during...
...Gangs of kids with small grievances—a stolen ball, a lost bet—come after Djata and his friends with blowguns and knives. “The White King” presents a harrowing picture of what a society can teach a child. These kids simply follow the rules they are given; when Djata’s grandfather tells him to shoot a cat in the head, he unthinkingly does as he is told. Such is the mechanism with which Djata copes with the world: he doesn’t think about what is painful. When...
...specific trial dates for the "high value" prisoners have yet been fixed, but when they are, the proceedings will be televised via closed circuit to the U.S. mainland for the benefit of relatives of those killed in the 9/11 attacks. Victims' families will be able to follow the proceedings from Fort Hamilton in New York, Fort Monmouth in New Jersey, Fort Meade in Maryland and Fort Devens in Massachusetts...
...spoke of "controlling spending" and scrubbing federal agencies for waste. Rather than announce any major anti-poverty initiatives, he proposed a three-month holiday from the gasoline tax, some subsidies for rural Internet providers and a doubling of the tax credit for families with dependent children. Rather than follow in the footsteps of Lyndon Johnson, he praised the nobility of Johnson's cause but then pointed out the failures of the "War on Poverty" effort...