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Harvard’s project manager for the bells said last week that a foundation backed by a Russian metals mogul has agreed to pay roughly $1 million to transport the 25 tons of sacred bronze back to Moscow and buy replacements for Lowell, possibly ending a decades-long ordeal in which Harvard sought to repatriate the bells but declined to pay for their transfer...
...Harvard's project manager for the bells said Thursday that a foundation backed by a Russian metals mogul has agreed to pay roughly $1 million to transport the 25 tons of sacred bronze back to Moscow and buy replacements for Lowell, possibly ending a decades-long ordeal in which Harvard sought to repatriate the bells but declined to pay for their transfer...
...News journalists were freed on Sunday in Gaza after a complex deal was hammered out between the kidnappers and the Hamas-led government of Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh. The negotiations brought an end to the two-week-long hostage ordeal, but it may complicate efforts to free another captive - Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit - held by Palestinian militants...
...grimy streets - or are they, perhaps, the stations of the cross? - through which Vince Papale runs every day in order to condition himself, bear an inescapable resemblance to the ones Rocky Balboa chugged through in search of his improbable apotheosis. OK, Vince doesn't end his daily ordeal on the steps of the local art museum and what he gets for his troubles is not a shot at the heavyweight championship, but three seasons as a more or less anonymous defensive specialist with the Philadelphia Eagles, but the idea is the same. An unlikely "triumph of the human spirit...
Hundreds of canceled flights. Huge lines at airports. Ferocious new baggage restrictions. Long delays. Traveling by air during the peak August holiday season is always an ordeal, but this year, it's far more strenuous than usual. Almost a week after the foiling of an alleged terrorist plot to blow up planes flying across the Atlantic, international air traffic remains snarled, especially at British airports, including Heathrow, the world's busiest international hub. Thousands of passengers - and their bags - have been stranded there, and the airlines and the company that runs Heathrow are now engaged in a nasty dispute over...