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Fletcher University Professor of Afro-American Studies Cornel R. West '74 even reached into his pocket to fill out a $50 check to support the campaign...
...intermission of La Traviata at the Bolshoi Theater--that NATO was issuing a bombing threat. Four weeks ago, they met in a bare, beige room at the Oslo airport, where Ivanov plucked a silk flower from the table arrangement to give her. He also pulled from his breast pocket a paper with 10 "principles" for a solution. Albright noticed some coincided with NATO's. She proposed that they get out pencils and mark the ones they could agree on. After three hours, Ivanov still had not accepted Washington's core demand for a NATO-led peacekeeping force. But there were...
...recovered in 1933 and on a shelf where a Chinese climber reporting seeing the remains of an "old English dead" in 1975. When the climbers reached under the body, they found letters from Mallory's family, poignantly close to his heart, as well as a broken altimeter, a pocket knife, monogrammed handkerchiefs and other personal items. Intriguingly, a pair of sun goggles found in a pocket suggest that he was trying to descend in fading light. There was, however, no sign of Irvine. With the Mallory family's permission, the team took a snippet of tissue from the forearm...
...expedition, which is being filmed by a joint Nova/BBC crew and is posting communiques on two websites mountainzone.com pbs.org/wgbh/nova) will continue searching in the few remaining weeks of Everest's busy spring climbing season. Besides Irvine's remains, the expedition is eager to find a Kodak vest-pocket folding camera given to Mallory just before the ascent. If he and his young partner made it to the summit, they would undoubtedly have photographed themselves at the top of the world--and those images would probably still be retrievable from film kept in so deep a freeze even after three...
After the announcement earlier this year that students would receive more financial aid, not being able to benefit from the Pell Grant increase comes as a slap in the face. Why should the University pocket money meant to go to students? Silly Harvard, financial aid is for kids, not endowments...