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...were intensely mistaken,” Bossert said last week. Bossert can recount anecdote after anecdote in which he worked with his wife and John B. Fox Jr. ’59, then-dean of the College, to directly counter these negative changes, like when the three stopped a gun-tractor from destroying a decorative row of bricks on the second floor of Lowell...
...Patil said that "Naxalites operate in [a] vacuum created by [an] absence of administrative and political institutions." The Naxalites, Patil said, "take advantage of the disenchantment prevalent among the exploited segments of the population" to "offer an alternative system of governance which promises emancipation ... through the barrel of a gun...
Welcomed by a 21-gun salute and a military band, Michel Suleiman, Lebanon's new President, took up residence Monday in the modern concrete-and-glass presidential palace set among the hilly suburbs of Beirut...
...original cartoonists for Mad magazine, Will Elder created irreverent, satirical illustrations that provided inspiration for the makers of Airplane! and the Naked Gun movies. At a publication in which bad taste was good, Elder was prized for his biting spoofs. He later took his knack for parody to Playboy, where he created and spent 25 years illustrating its Little Annie Fanny cartoon strip, which lampooned the magazine's fascination with buxom blondes. His frenetic style inspired scores of cartoonists...
Residents of the impoverished and enormous Shi'ite warren in east Baghdad have been under siege since April, when Iraqi security forces backed by American troops began clashing in the area with fighters from the Mahdi Army militia led by cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. For weeks gun battles and air strikes came almost every day in Sadr City as soldiers and militiamen faced off in a stalemated battle at the edge of the district, which is the Mahdi Army's stronghold. A hastily arranged truce between Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Sadr halted the fighting last week. Under...