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...student takeover of the U.S. embassy in Tehran was Sept. 11 in slow motion. Over 15 endless months, 52 American hostages were imprisoned, interrogated and humiliated by the radical Islamic students who seized the embassy compound. Back home, night after night, a lugubrious Walter Cronkite played the role of national town crier, counting off the days of captivity. Is it any surprise that all these years later the hostage taking is an episode that refuses to subside into mere history? The mullahs who exploited it to consolidate their power still rule. The hatreds it set loose still poison relations between...
BROWN IS IN AN AIDE'S CAR, TALKING nonstop, jabbing and gesturing, impervious to interruption, pointing out potholes and telling the aide where to stop and when to turn. Brown is fun to watch. He is trim, constantly in motion, his brown eyes still piercing and just a touch sad. Compared with almost any other politician, he's a riot to talk to, a one-man romp through everyone from St. Paul to Albert Camus. Jane Brunner, a city councilwoman who didn't vote for the mayor but thinks he has done a good job, says that when she goes...
Cambridge Public School Committee members questioned whether a proposed roundtable discussion on the system’s declining enrollment would detract from other pressing school issues at a meeting last night. The motion to host the roundtable with the City Council, proposed by first-term committee members Luc Schuster and Patricia M. Nolan ’80, came in response to City Councillor Craig A. Kelley’s statment at a meeting of the city’s Finance Committee last Thursday that Cambridge could not continue to “pour money into a school system that...
...from the Hague, Netherlands, on one board), organize pickup games and rant against the most severe problem facing the sport: racism. Members can blog, upload their own soccer video or view thousands of other clips, from the latest Arsenal highlights to Nikola from Bulgaria juggling the ball--in slow motion, no less--in his bedroom. "Some Tricks I Make!" reads the title...
...Reached yesterday, Engell declined to comment on the motion...