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...romance elsewhere found only in history books. "We want to turn this beautiful Himalayan country into an invincible red fort and a shining trench of world proletariat revolution," declared Maoist leader Baburam Bhattarai before the rebels took to the hills in 1996. "We are sure we will hoist the hammer and sickle atop Mount Everest...
Harvard has also committed to making major improvements to the neighborhood, and over the past two years neighbors and University officials have met to hammer out a master plan for the area...
Characteristically, Earle picked an interesting mix for the committee. One member is Ellen Halbert, a nationally known victims' advocate who in 1986 was raped, stabbed, beaten in the head with a hammer and left for dead. The only nonlawyer on the committee, she is director of Earle's victim-witness division. Other members include Patricia Barrera, a devoutly Roman Catholic Latina who has a stained-glass cross affixed to her window and tries to reconcile her church's opposition to the death penalty with her duties as a prosecutor; Buddy Meyer, the gruff head of the trial division...
...Alan Dershowitz should be ashamed of himself,” she said. “They want to make it so you cannot say, ‘God hates fags’…In other words, he’s taken a big fat chisel and hammer to the First Amendment...
...week later, Christie's in London raised €1.3 million from an unprecedented clearance sale of vintage wine from his legendary Bordeaux vineyard, Château Latour, including bottles dating back to 1863. And those are just the auctions. On the same day the wine went under the hammer, Artémis - the Pinault family's holding company - issued j520 million in bonds that it said was to be used to refinance existing bank debt. That was separate from the j1 billion-plus convertible bond issue announced only days earlier by the firm at the core of the Pinault empire...