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...recently visited Syria, last week publicly suggested that the U.N. inquiry into Hariri's killing could be reduced in scope in exchange for greater security and political cooperation from Damascus in key areas of U.S. concern. Specter said he had been told by King Abdullah of Jordan that "the item that is most on the mind of President Bashar Assad is the action of the international tribunal which could lead to his indictment." But Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice quickly slapped down Specter's proposal: "I don't think that it would be appropriate to suggest that we might...
...Decker vociferously disagreed. “We had to beg the Alliance to come to the committee meetings and care enough to respond to this,” she said. But Davis said she thought that the City’s agreement with CHA did not require a line-item budget explanation. Other councillors said they shared Davis’ uncertainty, leading the Council to add the amendment requesting clarification of its arrangement with CHA. Keefe could not be reached for comment before press time. –Staff writer Sarah J. Howland can be reached at showland@fas.harvard.edu
...they’ll just say, ‘Huh? Yeah, uh, it’s pretty.’” Bacon is only half-joking. He goes on to say that he regularly refers customers to Newbury if they’re looking for an item that Million Year Picnic doesn’t sell. Basic economics should predict that someone like Bacon would have even more competitive vitriol. After all, it’s not often that three comic book retailers coexist in a one-mile radius—much less coexist for decades, as these...
...crime movie was just one item in the dossier of this fascinating, hard-to-pin-down ex-pat auteur. And Dassin lived long enough to watch the fickle swing of fortune's pendulum over and over until the movement became almost routine. It was as if he were a character in one of his heist films: top of the world one minute, disgraced and disconsolate the next, but always angling for the next big break...
...April 9. “Given that all three speakers tonight mentioned this question of data,” said committee member Patricia M. Nolan ’80, “it is pretty important that we do discuss it as an agenda item.” —Staff writer Vidya B. Viswanathan can be reached at viswanat@fas.harvard.edu...