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Still, 40 people will gather starting today for tea, a tour and dinner and will stay through breakfast, lunch and two presentations on Saturday. Most of them, including Louis I. Kane '53, founder of Au Bon Pain, and John G.L. Cabot '56, have given significant gifts to Harvard in the past...
...cityscape, even capturing people's candid reactions to the esoteric signs. A knowledge of German, French or other European languages would help the viewer because no translations accompany these photographs. But there are enough photos of billboards in New York and California that the English-speaking viewer can gather the general meaning and formula for all the others...
China before Deng may have been poor, but everyone was equally in need. Now, around the corner from Shanghai's glittering Golden Age club, those forgotten by the economic boom gather under the eaves of the central railway station. There, a "floating population" of the destitute from far-flung corners of the nation arrives by the carload, hoping that Shanghai will be the land of plenty. Ran Yigang, a scruffy 23-year-old with the thick hands of a farm laborer, got off the train last week from Anhui, one of the poorest provinces. All day he searched in vain...
...iron fist" to end the chaos. Thus President Sali Berisha enters his fifth year as leader of this often forgotten Eastern European nation, which has been gripped with unrest since mid-January when failed pyramid schemes left thousands destitute. Under the state of emergency, declared Sunday evening, people cannot gather in groups of more than four and must stay off the streets between 8 pm and 7 am. People caught outside during those hours will be arrested or even shot if they offer resistance. All foreigners were ordered to leave southern Albania, the center of the violence...
...accused of being in league with the Russians, Pitts was assigned to hunt and recruit Soviet KGB agents, and later worked on top secret documents and personnel security at FBI headquarters. He was arrested after an 18-month investigation, in which agents posed as Russian spies to gather evidence on him. Pitts' wife Mary, herself an FBI agent, played a role in the investigation, searching his home office for incriminating records...