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Nearly all of us now know--or think we know--how the dinosaurs perished: some 65 million years ago, a giant asteroid or comet struck the earth, spewing huge amounts of dust and debris into the air. That dust, according to a widely accepted theory first proposed by Nobel laureate...
Past recipients of the Charles Eliot Norton professorship of poetry have included such luminary figures as Leonard Bernstein ’39, Jorge Luis Borges, e.e. cummings ’15, T. S. Eliot ’10, Robert Frost, Frank Stella and Igor Stravinsky. Musicologist Joseph Kerman was the...
A seventh detainee is Moroccan and the eighth, Luis José Galán González, is a Spaniard from a wealthy family and a convert to what investigators call a particularly fanatic style of Islam. Last July he went to Indonesia to train with the group Lashkar Jihad...
When Mullah Mohammed Omar announced on Feb. 26 that the big Buddhas were to be destroyed, Luis Monreal had a bright idea. Archaeologist, art historian and director of Fundació la Caixa , the cultural foundation in Barcelona sponsored by the Catalan savings bank of that name, Monreal decided to display...
Brazilian Back to the Future By ANDREW DOWNIE Brazil, too, may be counting on a repeat of history. The buzz in Rio de Janeiro is that Carlos Alberto Parreira is about to be recalled as coach, to replace the unimaginative Luis Felipe Scolari. After a scratchy qualification campaign under four...