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...Houses. In addition, the program managed a series of Yard-wide, late-night, alcohol-free activities designed to give freshmen something fun to do. In December 2003, the prefect program hosted “Harvard Idol,” which attracted more than 500 sober freshmen at midnight on three consecutive Saturdays. These aspects of the program were successful precisely because they were student-driven. The program was not beholden to the bulging bureaucracy of University Hall. Returning prefects, not College administrators, selected and supported new prefects as peer mentors; engaged students, not detached adults, attempted to create some semblance...
...certainly can't tell this book by its cover - a portrait of five men, in formal smoking jackets and white ties, at the champagne-and-cigar end of a meal. They might be any well-heeled diners, friends, perhaps, or business colleagues. But these guests at a midnight supper in Paris' fashionable Majestic Hotel in May 1922 were the best-known artists of the age: impresario Serge Diaghilev, writers James Joyce and Marcel Proust, painter Pablo Picasso and composer Igor Stravinsky. Ostensibly they were there to celebrate the premier of Stravinsky's ballet Le Renard, performed by Diaghilev's Ballets...
...Late Wednesday night, after Bush?s delegation arrived in New Delhi, Burns and National Security Adviser Steven Hadley met at the offices of Prime Minister Singh and continued their talks with Indian officials. Burns and Hadley took off at midnight to get some sleep while lower-level officials continued throughout the night. Hadley and Burns picked up again at 7 a.m. at Hyderabad House, a stately government building, where Bush and Singh were meeting. After Bush and Singh themselves pushed the negotiators to get the deal done, the final agreement was hammered out at 10:30 a.m., less than...
...road. Two other fake cops went to the man's house, where they told his wife and young son that Dixon had been involved in an accident. All three were then taken to a safe house where the family was threatened and Dixon forced to cooperate. After midnight, the gang took Dixon to a depot in nearby Tonbridge, run by Securitas, a company that handles about 40% of the cash deposits made in the U.K. Once inside, the gang tied up 14 staff members and started to load the loot into a white truck. It's a racing certainty they...
...road. Two other fake cops went to the man's house, where they told his wife and young son that Dixon had been involved in an accident. All three were then taken to a safe house where the family was threatened and Dixon forced to cooperate. After midnight, the gang took Dixon to a depot in nearby Tonbridge, run by Securitas, a company that handles about 40% of the cash deposits made in Britain. Once inside, the gang tied up 14 staff members and started to load the loot into a white truck...