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...College of Cardinals it would be Ratzinger's duty to formally notify his brother Cardinals once the Pope had died. Ratzinger hurried into a black Mercedes and was driven from the office of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, around the one-lane road behind St. Peter's Basilica, to the elevator that would bring him up to the Pope's private quarters. It was around noon when the Cardinal approached the Holy Father's bedside. John Paul's condition had deteriorated that morning. The same throat infection that had twice sent him to Gemelli hospital had begun...
...Little Nemo in Slumberland: So Many Splendid Sundays! by Winsor McCay and edited by Peter Maresca (Sunday Press) 100 years ago there appeared a full color comic strip unlike any seen before or since. "Little Nemo in Slumberland," by Winsor McCay, a pioneer of both comics and animation ("Little Gertie the Dinosaur"), followed the adventures of a little boy in the world of dreams until, at the end of every episode, he awakens. Some of the most visually inventive comics ever created, McCay's strips would put Nemo through diamond palaces, into the mouths of dragons, and as a giant...
...Juilliard School. Many other schools give academic credit for concert training. Tufts undergraduates have the option of enrolling in classes at NEC. Even MIT offers credit for private lessons. But for years, undergraduate musicians have bemoaned the lack of opportunities for performance training within the Harvard curriculum.According to Peter L. Anderegg ’04, an alumnus who graduated with a degree in Mathematics and is currently studying for a masters’ degree in cello performance at Juilliard, staying serious about music while at Harvard was possible, but took a lot of initiative and personal effort...
...said they wanted to see more summer opportunities based in community service. “I think it’s pretty awkward for people who aren’t that intense. It’s like being in a course section with all pre-meds,” Peter J. Martinez ’07 said. Alice R.B. Cullina ’08 offered similar criticism. “I’ve been looking at everything that isn’t a bank,” she said. “I just want something that?...
...reports on flu and flu mortality, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had inconsistencies in data and misrepresentations to the public, said Peter N. Doshi, a student in Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) who is writing his dissertation in Japanese medical history. His criticism appeared in a Dec. 10 article published in the British Medical Journal. Doshi’s article raised three main points of contention: an alleged misrepresentation on the CDC website, alleged inconsistencies in the CDC data, and a dubious causality between flu and deaths caused by pneumonia. Doshi...