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...mail sent yesterday to the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences community by Executive Dean Fawwaz Habbal stated that “in light of the current financial environment and the increased number of new and nearby café/dining options, SEAS and Harvard University Dining Services have elected to discontinue service at the Maxwell Dworkin Caf?...
...This is just one of a host of activities being done to balance the books in light of the financial situation,” Rutter said. The closing of the Maxwell Dworkin Café is not the first budgetary decision on campus to impact students’ stomachs. Earlier this year, financial concerns prompted the Barker Center Café to end its free coffee program, and the Freshman Dean’s Office is currently considering restricting proctors’ meal plans next year to reduce expenses...
...among them rape, incest, enslavement and murder. He is accused of imprisoning his daughter from age 18 in a tiny, windowless, unheated, rat-infested basement that reeked of mold and lacked warm water, and repeatedly raping her in front of their children, three of whom had never seen the light of day. The murder charge arose from the death shortly after birth of one of the seven children he fathered with his daughter. The ailing baby was not allowed the medical care it needed. But when he addressed the court on Monday, the accused spent more time talking about himself...
...Mayor Stadler's efforts to use the occasion to promote tourism in Sankt Poelten may be emblematic of Austria's inclination to evade the uncomfortable questions raised by the Fritzl case. It came to light just two years after Austrians learned of a surprisingly similar case: that of Natascha Kampusch, kidnapped at age 10 by another engineer and kept in a purpose-built cellar prison for eight years before she escaped in 2006. The form of incarceration wasn't the only thing the two cases had in common: not a single social worker, police officer or government official has taken...
...Scrolls project at Princeton Theological Seminary and an expert on Josephus, says it is not unusual that the word Essenes does not appear in the scrolls. "It's a foreign label," he tells TIME. "When they refer to themselves, it's as 'men of holiness' or 'sons of light.' " Charlesworth contends that at least eight scholars in antiquity refer to the Essenes. One proof of Essene authorship of the Dead Sea Scrolls, he says, is the large number of inkpots found by archaeologists at Qumran...