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...resemble family-style sitcoms, and both lack the eccentric flavor that characters like Stewie and Brian lend “Family Guy.”But any fears that viewers will confuse “The Winner” with “Family Guy” can be laid to rest. For starters, it’s not animated, though it doesn’t seem to matter to MacFarlane. “It wasn’t a conscious decision to go into live action. This was the first thing I wanted to jump...
...August, the Israelis invaded Lebanon on the pretext that Hizballah crossed the blue line. The irony here is that when Israel came to Lebanon in 1982, the justification was they wanted to finish the PLO. What actually happened is that they did not finish the PLO. But they laid the seeds for the creation of Hizballah...
...chosen as the architect nearly a decade before the matter was settled, and he has produced a temple of culture even a banker could love. Sitting on a plain high above the rest of Luxembourg City, the museum is laid out like an arrowhead, echoing the old, arrow-shaped Thüngen Fortress next door (soon to be a museum itself). Mudam's exterior is sheathed in French "Louvre" limestone that radiates the honeyed glow of its Parisian namesake. The interior - bright, airy and playful - is well-suited to the occasional zaniness of the art on display. Even the museum...
...foreign languages at Harvard and schmoozed with the Cambridge literati of the day. Thus his birthday is garnering special attention on campus, as well as across the city and the nation. A LONG LEGACY Succeeding George Ticknor, Longfellow became the second Smith professor of modern languages in 1836 and laid much of the foundation for comparative language study at Harvard. He often battled with the administration to do so, according to Matthew Pearl ’97, author of “The Dante Club,” a murder mystery novel that includes Longfellow and his literary cadre...
...past few months,Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank, has helped drive equities higher with his upbeat views on the economy. In his semiannual congressional testimony last week, the Fed chairman laid out a rosy scenario, predicting that U.S. growth would continue "at a moderate pace this year and next, with growth strengthening somewhat as the drag from housing diminishes...