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...Friday, the media crowd gathered on the small lawn of the mosque had grown smaller, but still contained members from across the country and even overseas. At the close of afternoon prayers, mosque leaders and members filed out, patiently indulging reporters' questions as they have done all week, breaking away only to tend to duty - picking up a child from school, or going back to work. The cars and trucks in the mosque parking lot sport "Go Army" bumper stickers...
...through hundreds of visitor feedback forms to learn how the public would go about thinning the university's collections. Armed with that information, they'll soon start the lengthy process of deciding what will stay or go. (The Agatha Christie basket should get a reprieve - officials admit they've grown quite fond of it.) (Read "On Show at Taipei's National Palace Museum...
...since grown to include memorials for Harvard students who gave their lives in the wars that followed...
...having both your parents in the entertainment industry affect your own in Hollywood? LEG: I think I knew what I was getting into. I didn’t have grand fantasies of what Hollywood was like because I had grown up on set and I was very aware of the realities of the work, but it didn’t stop...
...leading the team that wrote the new doctrine. The intellectual rigor of Petraeus' team, their willingness - no, their joy - when it came to chewing over even the most unlikely questions were flat-out exciting. It was certainly at odds with the hidebound image of the military I'd grown up with. I became an auxiliary member of the counterinsurgency cult - in theory. When it came time to apply it in Iraq, I had my doubts. It seemed too little, too late. But I was wrong, and the surge's relative success was attributable in no small part to the general...