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...among city fathers over its site, design, materials and even whether Luxembourg - a hardheaded realm of financiers and Eurocrats - needed such an extravagance. Jacques Santer, the country's former Prime Minister and a European Commission President, helped convince them to seek repute as a cultural capital instead of a mere tax haven...
...Brien's lighting designs have resonated most brightly with customers, and you don't need to be Thomas Edison to work out why. A handsome desk lamp at Aero, O'Brien's high-end SoHo store, runs upwards of $1,000. The Target version, almost as spiffy, is a mere...
...classes they take at Harvard.The Core Curriculum suffers from narrow restrictions and from an overly bureaucratic Core Office. Only 82 departmental courses are cross-listed for Core credit in the Courses of Instruction. Of those, 44 are concentrated in three of the Core’s 11 areas. A mere two departmental classes are listed as options for Foreign Cultures and Literature and Arts C, and only three can count for Moral Reasoning. Given that there are nearly 1,000 pages of course listings, the restrictions unduly limit students’ ability to take the classes they are interested...
...would withhold military aid to Pakistan unless President George Bush can certify that the Pakistani government is doing everything it can to halt Taliban and al-Qaeda activity. While such a bill will probably founder in the Senate, the possibility of Congressional intervention is much more effective than a mere lecture. Pakistan is among the biggest beneficiaries of U.S. foreign aid, receiving more than $3.5 billion since...
Both men served for eight years in the Illinois legislature, and both spent only a few years in the U.S. Senate before running for President. Furthermore, as Obama’s campaign whispers slyly to us, the parallels between the two go beyond mere coincidence into the two men’s core creeds. You see, Lincoln wanted peace and harmony in a divided America, and now Obama, against all odds, also wants peace and harmony...