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...this late into the semester can be more than a minor inconvenience. Aside from toying with the mental health of more obsessive pupils, the grade delays may have jeopardized summer job prospects or grant applications—particularly for those students who had really planned to turn a new leaf in the fall 2005 semester. Moreover, late grades meant that in many cases, students could not use their course performance from last semester to guide shopping period decisions...
...Four years later at Salt Lake City, published rumors had Team U.S.A.'s players stomping on the maple-leaf flag on their locker-room floor in a psych-up ceremony. "There was no validity" to the story, Granato says. "I was highly offended because as captain, I just wouldn't allow that to happen." But the damage had been done. The Canadians were frothing. And during the gold-medal final, U.S. referee Stacey Livingston dealt a lopsided number of penalties to Canada, which added to their fury. "The refereeing was atrocious," recalls Canadian captain Cassie Campbell. "But we expected...
...that President Bush highlighted the issue of energy independence in a way previous presidents have not, immediate action and an honest recognition of the possible challenges of such an initiative must follow the flighty rhetoric before we can conclude that the oil president has turned over a new, green leaf. No single agenda would addresses as many core U.S. strategic issues as a revamped energy policy. Achieving energy independence could at once un-muddy U.S. foreign policy and curtail potentially irreversible damage to the environment through the use of emission-free renewable, nuclear, or clean coal energy sources. Moreover, investment...
Images of the gorgeous mosaic and gold-leaf paintings of Vienna's native son Gustav Klimt have long graced everything in Austria from chocolate wrappings to subway walls. The real things, so emblematic of Vienna's embrace of early 20th century Art Nouveau, attract tens of thousands of art lovers to the city each year. So it was with genuine dismay that Austrians woke one morning last week to discover that five of the artist's best-known works housed in the Belvedere Palace - including the famous golden portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, the painting's original owner - were suddenly...
DIED. JIM GARY, 66, globally popular artist known for massive yet graceful dinosaur sculptures made from the vividly painted parts of junked cars; after a brain hemorrhage; in Freehold, N.J. Gary's T. Rexes--with oil pans for heads and leaf springs for ribs--delighted kids as well as curators, including those at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, where he had an acclaimed solo show...