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...16th century palace has been painstakingly restored and this, the first show since its reopening, attempts a similarly careful reconstruction of the cultural life that Fabbri and Loeser found when they bought their substantial villas in the city. Florence was one of the key stops on the European Grand Tour undertaken by many wealthy and cultured Americans of the time, and the young men moved in expatriate circles that included well-known cultural figures. Writers and modern-art patrons Leo Stein and his sister Gertrude, Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt, portraitist John Singer Sargent, painter John La Farge, novelist Edith Wharton...
Junior Parents Weekend brought more than just free meals and clean rooms to the happy quarter of Harvard who got to have Mom and Dad check out what they’re paying 40 grand for...it seems that one parent, eager to get the authentic experience, partied so hard at Purimpalooza that he/she was found passed out in the basement and UHS had to be called in...A group of juniors, ready to let loose after playing it straight for the parents, boarded the shuttle ready to rage. Unfortunately for them, their foul mouths were overheard by one student?...
...pitch, he is difficult to miss. The Grand Prairie, Tex. native works smoothly and runs upright. Rarely does he appear caught out of position, or uncertain with his feet...
...fellow jurors during the deliberations. "Where's Rove? Where's Cheney? It seems like he was the fall guy." Overall, said Collins, the jury was sympathetic to Libby. He was sitting in front of them in court every day; his voice was "polite and nice" in the grand jury tapes. But early on in their deliberations, recalled Collins, one juror told the others a maxim her mother always repeated: "When you let yourself be led by emotion, it usually leads you the wrong way." This, said Collins, characterized the approach the jury took...
...setting the goal as a general thaw in tensions in northeast Asia. The Six-Party agreement prescribes a step-by-step process to verifiably shut down Yongbyon, before the parties reconvene in Beijing to discuss further steps that would include dismantling the reactor. Hill acknowledges that progress towards a grand bargain depends entirely on small steps over the next few months. "It is unlikely that the North Koreans will roll out of bed in the morning and say we are going to make a strategic decision to get out of [the nuclear weapons business]," Hill said last month. "More likely...