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...faculty appointments in the ’80s, preferring to seek out qualified women and minority candidates instead, he was accused by critics of “racism disguised as meritocracy.” Protesters during the student takeover of University Hall in 1968 used to gesture at the portico of Widener, screaming, “Don’t those Georgian columns look like the plantation?” The columns, built in 1915, are more neo-classical revival. So actually...
...Tuesday at Fleur d'Eau, an unoccupied chteau made available by the Swiss government. Advancemen have arranged for Gorbachev to be driven to the back of the house just before 10 a.m. Reagan will be waiting on a flight of gray stone steps leading to the rear portico, hand outstretched for a historic shake. After a brief get-acquainted session, the President and General Secretary, each accompanied by seven aides and a translator, will confer until noon, return to their residences for lunch, and meet again from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. To accommodate the parties...
...death and destruction they witnessed. Shokrollah Arab, 10, was lying next to his parents when they were crushed by a collapsing wall. Since then he's lived in an orphanage, with a tidy bed that he never sleeps in. Fearing another quake, he insists on sleeping outside on the portico despite freezing temperatures. "If anything happens, I'll be able to flee," he says gravely. In the rehab program, such children are asked to express their emotions in songs and drawings and given individual counseling. "There is a lot of invisible reconstruction going on," says Kari Egge, UNICEF's director...
...very uncomfortable routes. So for a caver who thinks nothing of slithering on his belly along an underground tunnel just wide enough to fit his body, with only his head above water - "we call it roof sniffing," he says - the entrance he's plunging into is like a portico...
...weather vane atop the east portico has an indicator that can be read from any of the front windows...