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...Friends insist Hermann has become more glamorous in her more public role as CEO, converting from washed-out working mom to sophisticated executive?without going overboard. "Valerie, plain pumps, is now Valerie, stilettos," says Camilla Morton, a writer who works closely with Dior designer John Galliano...
...that Kim Jong Il doesn’t swindle the U.S. again.Overall, the February deal seems to be a victory for the Bush administration, which critics have derided as a kettle of war hawks. Still, given the North’s history, the U.S. should beef up inspection teams, insist on tough inspection standards, and reward the North only after it has shown good behavior. Otherwise, the February deal will end up in Kim Jong Il’s trash bin, right above the Agreed Framework—and the blueprints for his nukes.Brian J. Bolduc...
...here is not to preach but to insist upon my right, and others’, to a conversation full of respect and free of intimidation, one that presumes no monopolies on suffering, one in which all racism and anti-Semitism—whether against Semitic Jews, Semitic Christians, Semitic Druzes or Semitic Muslims—is equally impermissible. I am troubled that Dershowitz escaped former University President Lawrence H. Summers’ criticism when he endorsed Israel’s torture of Palestinian prisoners. And Wisse’s ghastly 1988 description of Palestinian refugees as “people...
Alexander Pichuzkin, 33, is set to go on trial in Moscow for the murder of 51 people. He will almost certainly insist that he killed more. He may even point to the chess diagram he drew in a notebook, each square marked with a date: 61 were filled in, three short of the entire chessboard. The police say they cannot find evidence for that number of bodies dead at Pichuzkin's hands. Many of the grocery-shelf stocker's presumed victims were among Moscow's homeless, lured into a game of chess in a suburban park with glasses of vodka...
...there within Harvard University a moral consciousness that will demand that Harvard expect much more of itself as it expands into Allston? For the benefit of both Harvard and Allston, perhaps internal voices will insist that Harvard build a relationship with the Allston community that will be regarded worldwide as the shining example of how to simultaneously enrich a prestigious university and its newfound neighbors...