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Like the Aztec empire, King Richard III’s reign comes to an unexpected and startling end while at the peak of power. Richard’s demise is plotted by Richmond, a character who is barely even mentioned in earlier acts. Richard then becomes a virtual Montezuma, with his slayer represented in European garb...
...time eating at a non-Quincy dining hall. Interhouse restrictions are the result of the naturally unequal distribution of dining hall traffic caused by geography and quality of cuisine, not (as Kane seems to think) simply out of isolationist community building. If Kane were willing to eat at non-peak times (before 5:30 or after 6:30 pm) or with a resident of the house, she would find Adams House quite welcoming...
During spring break, college students tend to travel to such places as Cancun and Daytona Beach, Fla. High school students, on the other hand, tend to travel to colleges. Spring break is one of the peak periods for the college-campus tour, that rite of passage in which high school students and their parents visit centers of higher learning to determine where the child should spend four years and the parents untold thousands of dollars. This year, however, some ugly realities are upsetting collegiate itineraries. War in Iraq has many families concerned about traveling, and the lackluster economy makes...
Around the same time, Edelman also used some of the money from his Bar Mitzvah to start trading stocks, which he soon found he had a knack for. According to the Wall Street Journal, at peak his portfolio was worth $300,000, but he recently sold off his stock to buy a condo near Porter Square...
...four isolated pockets of Ansar on very high ground. We're closing in on them from everywhere we can," says an American commando named Mark, who declined to give his rank or surname. All Saturday afternoon the Ansar fighters rain down sniper and machine-gun fire from a craggy peak high above the Americans. From the flat plains about two miles below, pro-American Kurds return artillery fire...