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...asked, referring to actress Jessica Alba’s action television show. Six more events will be held before the conclusion of the program on Friday, Feb. 24. Lepon said one of the most hotly-anticipated portions will be next Thursday’s public discussion with Peter A. Chvany ’85, a systems administrator at Harvard Law School who recently published a collection of essays titled “Bi Men: Coming Out Every Which Way.” “Last year we really wanted to address the issue of bi men, and that didn?...
Arthur T. von Mehren ’42, a trailblazer in the study of international law who taught at Harvard for nearly half a century, died of pneumonia on Jan. 16. He was 83. “He was essentially a Harvard lifer,” said his son Peter A. von Mehren ’77. “He arrived at Harvard in 1939 when he was 17 years old and spent the rest of his life there. He devoted his entire life to being a scholar in the Harvard community.” Von Mehren grew...
...Whittington was listed in stable condition. "He seems in good spirits. He's talking and conversing," said Yvonne Wheeler, a spokeswoman for Christus Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi-Memorial. "His condition is really looking good. They're just taking every precautionary measure. Recovery looks very positive." Added Peter Banko, the hospital's administrator, "He is a true gentleman... I hate to say sweetheart because it makes me sound like a female, but he is wonderful to be around. He is joking with the staff." Whittington was expected to be taken out of intensive care Monday afternoon and moved to a trauma...
...grand Harper world visions similar to the flights of rhetorical fancy preferred by former Prime Minister Paul Martin, who once notably declared that "showing others the way is at once [Canada's] destiny and our responsibility." The Harper team's approach will be "practical," Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay told Time. "We're not going to go with hundreds of priorities--just concentrate on the things we think are achievable." This government, in other words, doesn't do world visions...
...Haunting the island is the possibility that neither side in the conflict is able to rise above its worst instincts, and that two decades of ferocious conflict may have brutalized the island beyond repair. Says a European diplomat in Colombo: "Killing is how Sri Lanka does politics." Father Gnanapragasam Peter, who runs a mission for the Catholic aid charity Caritas, concurs. "Neither side," he says flatly, "cares for the people...