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...effort announced yesterday will be bankrolled by the Carnegie Corporation and the Knight Foundation for the first two years. Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers and the chiefs of the four other participating universities have pledged to provide funding for a third year if there are clear signs that the initiative is achieving its goals...
There’s a scene in “Episode III” depicting foot-soldiers turning on one Jedi knight after another, cutting these soldiers of good down at a word from the Chancellor. I was immediately reminded of the way the press—and anyone else who speaks out against the status quo—is being offered up for sacrifice by the government, and the way Americans are joining the witch hunt without asking questions...
Sources: U.N.D.P. (2); AP; CAGW.org AP (2), Knight-Ridder; Reuters
...Christian knight Godfrey (Liam Neeson) enlists his illegitimate son Balian in the Crusades. Godfrey's hope is that they can fashion "a kingdom of conscience, a kingdom of heaven" where "there is peace between Christian and Muslim." Well, one way for peace to come to the region would be for the Christians to leave. That doesn't suit Godfrey and his men. They are soldiers for Christ. They have a mission to achieve, and they will do it, by God. Their God, that...
...paintings and thousands of book and magazine illustrations of dinosaurs, early humans and adventure scenes. Some 400 of his works are on exhibit through July 10 at the Prague Castle Riding Hall. The late U.S. paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould ranked Burian's work alongside that of American Charles R. Knight, the world's most celebrated painter of dinosaurs. Burian earned a cult following in the Czech Republic, particularly during the totalitarian era. "Burian, who along with his nation was denied freedom in the second half of his life, was able to encode it into most of his works," Vladim?r Prokop...