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...accomplish that, he's using an instrument he developed in collaboration with the University of California at San Diego and Emory University to capture chemical clues of any paint colors that may be present behind the wall. There's a good chance that Culture Minister Francesco Rutelli will grant Seracini permission in the next year or two to peel back the Vasari mural, which won't have to be damaged in the process. A great work might be found, but a great mystery would be gone...
After a half-decade of stagnation, the Pell Grant—a government-sponsored form of financial aid benefiting 700 low-income Harvard undergraduates—is poised for an increase. The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to raise the maximum Pell Grant by $260, or 6 percent. Yesterday, President Bush announced a budget calling for an increase of $550, which would boost the grant to a maximum of $4,600 per year. The director of financial aid for the College, Sally C. Donahue, welcomed the move to increase federal funding for needy students, citing a lack of action...
...short on substantive policy results. Her most clear-cut successes have been forging a strategic alliance with India and improving the U.S.'s tattered relationship with its European allies. "She's been a good diplomat in the true sense of the word, going around talking and listening," says Charles Grant, director of the London-based Center for European Reform. "Although America's image hasn't changed, she's blameless in that...
...younger manhood, in which his subject was not charm but its fragile and illusionary nature in a world where brutality often masquerades as farce?these will abide to delight and possibly even haunt the future. Some distant day, audiences may even come to agree with a minority of Grant's contemporaries that he was not merely the greatest movie star of his era but the medium's subtlest and slyest actor as well...
...ride from class. When he arrived, Diana had already phoned the police. "I was crying my heart out. A child has to be home at a certain time," Diana recalled. Even before nightfall, when radio rhythms are punctuated by gunshots, children cannot play outside. A neighbor child, Angela Grant, 6, has never once frolicked in the play area by her apartment building because fighting frequently breaks out there. "She knows," says her mother, Sonja Grant, 26, "that she's never going across that battlefield...