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...world over have been journeying to sacred sites since the Bronze Age, and a new exhibition could tempt latter-day pilgrims to make the journey to Oxford, England. "Pilgrimage: The Sacred Journey" runs at the Ashmolean Museum until April 2. It includes a 15th century illuminated manuscript of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and the 13th century casket that once held the relics of Canterbury's martyr St. Thomas Becket, as well as rare objects such as a 5th century sandstone head of the Hindu god Shiva and a 13th century Buddhist plaque from Burma, pictured. Pilgrim mores often...
...contested Currier House Committee (HoCo) co-chair election this Saturday. The arduous race witnessed three rounds of voting—two resulting in ties, and one canceled because of security flaws with the online voting system. With Leng garnering a clear victory in each of the votes, Cullen and Geoffrey D. Kearney ’07 remained in a dead heat until this final election, when Cullen’s total finally exceeded Kearney’s by a significant margin. “The results of this election were not as close as the previous elections...
...When the initial vote for HoCo co-chairs closed last Tuesday, Techrosette Leng ’07 held the lead with 99 votes, while candidates Christopher S. Cullen ’07 and Geoffrey D. Kearney ’07 tied with 67 votes each. A run-off election between Cullen and Kearney resulted on Thursday in an unlikely second tie, with both candidates garnering 90 votes...
There are other benefits to buying Chiron that Vasella doesn't mention. "One of the reasons that the big pharma companies stay in the business is because it does give you access to the very highest levels of government," says Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Geoffrey Porges. "You are perceived as someone who is solving a problem." That's an image any drug company would be happy...
...momentum even after the protagonists have ended their assignment. Kauffman’s reflection on the psychic cost of protracted violence is even more engaging than the beginning action. Near the film’s end Kauffman is sucked into a debate with his Israeli Secret Service handler (Geoffrey Rush). Kauffman argues that Israel’s retaliatory course will not achieve peace, only an endless cycle of bloodshed and recrimination. The mission has made paranoia, rage, and guilt permanent fixtures of Kauffman psyche, and he predicts a similar fate for his homeland if it makes vengeance state policy...