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...Seif al Islam says that Gaddafi?s confidence grew as the number of messages from the British and U.S. governments came in via MI6 and the CIA. The key breakthrough occurred on Sept. 6, 2003, when a British air marshal flew in to Tripoli on a Royal Air Force plane and handed Gaddafi a personal letter from the British Prime Minister formally agreeing to Gaddafi's conditions for proceeding. That paved the way for the visit of the MI6-CIA technical team to inspect all of Libya's top-secret WMD sites and report back to their governments...
...Caine Mutiny Court-Marshal This revival prompts a question: Herman Wouk, what were you thinking? In the context of his great sea saga - published as a novel in 1951 and turned into a 1954 film, then this play - the court-marshal of the psycho Captain Queeg is a demonstration of what happens when real-world wartime chaos gets translated into the cool legal niceties of the courtroom. But unmoored from its seagoing prologue, all that talk about Queeg's obsession with shirttails and strawberries lacks any dramatic punch. And why make so much of the betrayal of Lt. Keefer...
...followed in 2004. Late night talk show host Conan O’Brien ’85 spoke at the event in 2000. Senior Class Committee members declined to comment on the selection, referring questions to Neil K. Mehta ’06, the second class marshal. Mehta could not be reached for comment. Committee members e-mailed seniors last night to say that “a big-screen showing” of “Family Guy” would be held in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at 5:30 this evening. The event would followed...
Senior Class Committee members declined to comment on the selection, referring questions to Neil K. Mehta ’06, the second class marshal. Mehta could not be reached for comment...
...cave paintings, like those discovered earlier in southern France and northern Spain, became a topic of fertile interdisciplinary discussion. Some saw in these beasts primary evidence that from the beginning art was wrought for the sake of art. Others contended that the images were purely utilitarian, drawn solely to marshal magic that would help hunters succeed. Yet archaeological evidence is strong that while humans were painting in Lascaux, they could count for sustenance on massive herds of reindeer, an animal that is only rarely depicted. By the beginning of the 1970s, Lascaux had found a kind of stability. The crowds...