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...universe, but lately it has been overshadowed by almost every other genre - novels, comic books, self-help - or just channeled into other media, like rock and hip-hop. These days most bookstores stock a few odd volumes on a back shelf, and most of those are written by singer Jewel. But people are still writing poetry and finding ways to say things no other medium can - if you have the time to stop and listen...
Everything but Madonna's hat and her bridegroom's tuxedo was white--the tents, the bunting covering the tennis court, the tablecloths. At the center of each table sat a modern version of Cinderella's slipper: a gold-and-jewel-encrusted spike-heeled shoe on a brocaded cushion. The bride and bridegroom danced their wedding dance to Sarah Vaughan's I'm Crazy About the Boy, and later on, the Boy himself showed off some Saturday Night Fever steps for the enthusiastic crowd. As for the Boy Toy, she vetoed her own music, although one of the wedding's deejays...
Much of this year’s discussion centered on fleshing out the details of Harvard College Courses (HCC), the crown jewel of a general education platform proposed to replace the outdated Core Curriculum. Thus far the reports generated by the committee on general education have remained conspicuously vague. It is not for want of existing examples that HCC’s remain ill-defined. A quick perusal of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Courses of Instruction present a plethora of varied syllabi taught in an array of structures—lectures, sections, tutorials, seminars, and conference courses...
Those words would haunt Hariri for the rest of his life. Seven weeks after his meeting in Damascus, he resigned. Almost four months after that, he was dead, assassinated on Valentine's Day in rebuilt downtown Beirut, the jewel of his political achievements, as he prepared to launch a bid to reclaim power and rid Lebanon of Syrian influence. In death, Hariri managed to obtain the prize he so desperately sought in the final months of his life. After his assassination a million Lebanese poured into the streets, galvanizing international opinion against Damascus and forcing the withdrawal of Syrian troops...
...changes are overdue. "If this is the crown jewel of our intelligence system, it was a pretty shoddy product," says Tom Kean, who reviewed Bush and Clinton Administration briefings as chairman of the 9/11 commission. Bush has had his own problems with the PDB. Last year, an expert he was consulting on Iraq complained that the CIA spent too much time providing updates for the PDB on relatively obscure matters. Bush's response: "So that's why those bastards keep telling me about Mozambique." The new approach is getting some good reviews. State Department intelligence officials have been pleased...