Word: grandson
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...Given Day takes place a few years before Roses. The central characters were offstage presences in that play: a manipulative matriarch (Thompson in peak form) and her mentally and physically handicapped grandson. The new work also concerns itself with two marriages, one contemplated and one in danger of breaking up, plus tuberculosis, a son's going off to World War II, and the matriarch's claims to foretell the future...
Last week, after months of enforced silence (nominees are prohibited from defending themselves until their hearings), Halperin was finally allowed to respond. He introduced his family (including his grandson, who promptly fell asleep) and then declared, "Charges have been made about my beliefs and activities which are simply false. They are, in some cases, made up out of whole cloth; in others, they result from wrenching sentences out of context and building tales around them...
Council candidate Michael A. Baldasaro, grandson of former Cambridge mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, told voters outside the Peabody School that he wants to work for the people...
...ruler named Sargon of Akkad. He conquered and subjugated dozens of cities and villages between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers more than 4,000 years ago, forcing them to pay tribute in wheat, barley and silver. For a century the regime flourished, first under Sargon and then under his grandson until suddenly, mysteriously, it collapsed. Neither the capital city of Akkad, famed for its harbor filled with vessels from distant shores, nor the imperial records, etched in cuneiform and possibly chronicling the empire's demise, have ever been found...
According to legend, the Mesopotamians blamed their woes on Sargon's grandson, whose hubris had supposedly angered the gods. But the American and French researchers, led by Yale archaeologist Harvey Weiss, offer a more scientific, if no less surprising, explanation. They believe the drought was part of a major shift in weather patterns that affected the climate in many different areas of the globe 4,000 years ago. From Egypt to the Aegean to India, rainfall diminished and temperatures dropped. "This is opposite to what you might expect from global warming," explains George Kukla, senior research scientist at the Lamont...