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...current Prime Minister Gordon Brown seems to share his predecessor's lack of enthusiasm. At a September press conference Brown gestured to a journalist that it was his turn at the microphone. As the journalist identified himself, Brown motioned him to stop. The event had barely begun, and the PM had already answered questions from four BBC correspondents. Now here was a fifth. Brown didn't care that each journalist represented different BBC outlets catering to different audiences. To him, the BBC was the BBC, and enough was enough...
...movie to be filmed at Harvard. Look for Emerson Hall (referred to as Barrett Hall), Leverett Towers, the ugliest lead actress in history, and other landmarks. Watch out for the ending though–it’s a killer. Friday, Nov. 16, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 pm. Brattle Theater. $9.50. 3) Get Your Gears Turning There’s a 10 mile bike tour of Boston through the Stonybrook reservation and along Mother Brook this Saturday, led by the Boston Natural Areas Network. Saturday, Nov. 17. E-mail info@bostonnatural.org to sign up. 4) Big Daddy Says...
Harvard will host Brown at home on Friday night at 7 pm, followed by a match-up with rival Yale on Saturday at 4 pm in Lavietes Pavilion...
...world, Canadian painter Ken Danby was more commercial than cool. But if some critics turned up their noses at his realistic images--of the Ontario landscape, of hockey icon Wayne Gretzky and other sports figures, of PM Pierre Trudeau for a 1968 Time cover--his appeal among regular folks helped cement his place in museums around the world. His most widely reproduced work, At the Crease, of a masked hockey goalie waiting for a hit, became an unofficial national symbol and won praise from Danby's hero, realist Andrew Wyeth, as "terrifying and exciting." Danby died of an apparent heart...
...fact, the only one of Iran's neighbors for whom it may be true, as the French PM suggests, that tensions have reached "an extreme point," is the United States - a neighbor by virtue of its presence in Iraq. Despite offering little evidence to back the claim, the Administration now routinely claims Iran is destabilizing Iraq and waging a proxy war on U.S. forces there. In fact, President Bush proclaims containing Iran as one of the strategic rationales for staying in Iraq. And the hawkish political faction inside and outside of the Administration that campaigned for war in Iraq...