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...April 18, 1916, and a volatile group of artists who'd found refuge from World War I in Switzerland were gathered around a table at Zurich's Cabaret Voltaire, arguing about a label for themselves and their work. They settled this dispute, according to art lore, by thrusting a letter opener randomly into a French-German dictionary. The word it pointed to - dada - has many meanings: "hobbyhorse" in French, "cube" in certain Italian dialects and "yes, yes" in Slavic languages. That night, they agreed on a name but continued to dispute what the word - and the movement - signified. Tristan Tzara...
...probe into Ladner’s spending habits began when the Board of Trustees received an anonymous letter that accused Ladner and his wife, Nancy Bullard Ladner, of inappropriately billing the university for personal services and travel expenses. A similar letter sent to The Washington Post in late July provided examples of the alleged misuse of the university’s funds. According to the letter received by the Post, the Ladners charged the cost of their son’s engagement party, the services of a personal chef, vacations in Europe, and other various goods and services...
...Bains suddenly stepped down on Oct. 9, writing in her resignation letter that “a very small, but mean-spirited group” had tried to stymie the investigation and reinstate Ladner...
...newspaper has also been willing to publish interviews with numerous Islamic militant leaders to give these groups a chance to air their views. "We have been thinking hard and fast," he says. "I really did not pick a fight with anyone. I was very surprised that we received those letter bombs. We must have hit a nerve, but we don't know whose." (One possibility: an extremist group whose views Khazen refused to publish.) Regardless, the injured party seems to feel that the insults spelled death. Which makes for some irony. In Arabic, the name Al Hayat means life...
...trickled out of University Hall in late summer.But in an e-mail yesterday, Kirby cast higher expenditures as part of a plan to expand the Faculty’s physical and human resources for which it has long been preparing financially. Indeed, Kirby’s first annual letter to the Faculty, in 2003, warned of budget deficits by fiscal year 2005.Kirby did not address the projected size of the deficits discussed at the September retreat. But Andrew Gordon, the chair of the history department, recalled that report’s projection of annual deficits as between...