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...don’t know what everyone of our members did,” he said. According to an article Wednesday in the Boston University Daily Free Press, the group became the target of campus police last week after they entered a classroom prior to a Jan. 23 lecture. “People see [LaRouche members] as a nuisance and don’t realize that they have no business being on BU property,” BU spokesman Colin Riley told the Free Press. “If they are trespassing, we can arrest them, and we will...
...emerged that British Prime Minister Tony Blair had been questioned for a second time by police investigating allegations that seats in the House of Lords were sold for political donations. The interview, which took place on Jan. 26 at 10 Downing Street, was kept secret at the request of Scotland Yard. Previously questioned by police in December, Blair was again treated as a witness, not as a suspect...
...Jan Crawford Greenburg got unusual access for her new book, Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court (Penguin Press; 340 pages), including interviews with nine current and former Justices. The result is a rare inside look at the strange, hermetic world of the highest court in the land. The book reveals Clarence Thomas--often seen as Antonin Scalia's understudy--to be a surprisingly forceful conservative voice on the court who sways Scalia rather than the other way around and who pushes more moderate Justices leftward in reaction. Greenburg also shows...
Hospitality in hand, Bulgaria is the next little thing on the international travel scene. The Balkan nation joined the European Union on Jan. 1, with blue flags waving in the streets on New Year's Eve, yet only in recent years have tourists ventured much beyond Black Sea beach towns and into the Ohio-size expanse of rose farms, medieval monasteries and Roman ruins. Visitors, especially Western Europeans, are flocking to ski resorts in the Rila and Pirin mountains and have even sparked a property boom in Bansko, where investors are scooping up cheap vacation homes. Meanwhile, low-cost labor...
...During the work's three-year gestation, Stewart gradually warmed to Demers' motorized monsters and was "devastated" when two of the creatures broke down just before the Jan. 24 opening in Sydney. "It's interesting because it was a similar response to having a really good dancer suddenly having to go off with an injury," he recalls. Illuminated, stalked and interrogated by the machines, Stewart's dancers are cast in a new light, with primordial movements evoking the dawn of mankind. "Even though we've lived under civilization for millennia," Stewart says, "we are still very much driven...