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When visitors arrive to see Condoleezza Rice on the seventh floor of the State Department, they are seated down the corridor from Rice's office, in a drawing room decorated with patterned carpets, Georgian furniture and a grandfather clock. Above one sofa hangs a framed, four-page document, typewritten and signed with the initials "GM." It is the original copy of the most famous speech ever made by a U.S. Secretary of State: George Marshall's commencement address at Harvard in 1947, the speech that led to the passage of the European Recovery Act, later known as the Marshall Plan...
Slated for completion in two years, the Holyoke Street building will be known as the New College Theatre. Harvard plans to preserve the Pudding’s Georgian facade while replacing the rich and historic but dilapidated interior with a newer, more technologically sophisticated theater...
...CHARGED. VLADIMIR ARUTYUNIAN, 27, ethnic Armenian who confessed to throwing a live grenade at George W. Bush during the U.S. President's May speech in Georgia; with terrorism; in Tbilisi. Arutyunian's grenade failed to explode after landing about 30 meters from the podium where Bush and Georgian Prime Minister Mikhail Saakashvili stood behind a bulletproof barrier. Arutyunian, who is being held in custody awaiting trial, says Bush was "interfering in Georgia's foreign affairs" and maintains that his attempt on the President's life is not a punishable offense...
...speech to his fellow Georgian journalists (later reprinted in Editor & Publisher), Perry advised them, "Forget fair." He thinks that accenting fairness is a sure way to make newspapers "a gray morass of innocuous inanity." Not long ago, his paper, which is home owned in a city of 30,000, reported a crime in a convenience store. Two men forced the night clerk to open the till and then raped her. The paper reported the store's name and its location but not the victim's name...
...Arts Festival--which will be much like the one he set up for the 1984 Olympics--was already in Moscow. "I wanted to be the first in the door," he says. Fitzpatrick, whose taste runs to artistic frontiers, immediately placed a bid for the innovative Rustaveli Theater from the Georgian city of Tbilisi. "It's been a generation or two since we've seen any Soviet theater in this country," he says...