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...goes according to plan, the E.U. could know who its President will be following a gathering of E.U. leaders on Thursday night in Brussels. (One almost expects a cloud of white smoke to rise from the Justus Lipsius building when a candidate is chosen.) But it won't be a straightforward process: the leaders are likely to haggle until the final moment on the decision of the President and the new E.U. Foreign Minister in an attempt to strike a balance in politics, gender and geography in the appointments - quite possibly at the expense of qualities like talent and merit...
...messages, ranging from the quirky (a falafel recipe) to the anarcho-romantic (JOIN THE RESISTANCE: FALL IN LOVE) to the sardonic (ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS NO MATCH FOR NATURAL STUPIDITY). But most are mushy love notes (M.L. LOVES HER FUNKY D). So one of the organizers, Dutch theater director Justus van Oel, decided to up the ante. He commissioned Farid Esack, a South African religious scholar and former antiapartheid activist, to write a 1,998-word letter, in English, to Palestinians urging nonviolent resistance to the Israelis. The work is now being painted in 2-ft.-high letters along...
...celebrated in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich,; Big Band Sunday, in Cornwall, Pa.; Wausau's Funday and Possum Festival in Chipley, Fla.; National Smile Week in San Antonio; the International Zucchini Festival in Harrisville, N.H.; as well as the Army Nurses Pay Raise Anniversary and the birthday of Joseph Justus Scaliger, described by loyalists as "the founder of scientific chronology...
...crashed during exams, so me and my iPod are still reeling from that, and I haven’t bothered to download or find anything new since. My roommates and I have been listening to the pre-release 12” from the Gorillaz and Daft Punk. The new Justus Kohncke record as well as the Bloc Party LP have been on pretty constant rotation since January. Also, grime: anything by Wiley, or anything off the Run the Road comp. The new LCD Soundsystem record is worth buying just for the bonus disc that compiles all the singles. Unbelievable stuff...
Meyer, who has two children—Justus S. Meyer ’05 and Halsey R. Meyer ’07—at the College, will leave the University at the top of his game. Though Meyer has repeatedly warned of lower returns, the endowment posted a 21.1 percent return last fiscal year, far surpassing the national average of 14.7 percent...