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Other questions seem downright strange. The most bizarre reads: "What do you feel is the most essential quality for a fictional character to possess in order to establish contact with an audience?" Alarmed to discover that final exams are not over, I muddle through the form, read through the excerpt from the play, and anxiously await my turn...
...Harvard's institutional grandeur, alumni, with the exception of a growing and relatively successful group of activists, view the Board of Overseers as a passive and advisory entity in the governing structure, designed to help support rather then evaluate the administration. By charter the 30 democratically elected members possess broad powers of review and oversight that promise a concerned alumni body far greater responsibility for everything from budgetary proceedings to investment policy and faculty and administration appointments. The board has the right to take back the authority it long ago ceded to the Corporation. Instead of prohibiting members to talk...
Rhinelander said she received a third mysterious phone call at 12:30 a.m. Friday from a man who claimed to possess a fourth of the purloined artworks. "I gave the caller Ethan's phone number because he painted this particular mural," said Rhinelander...
...that wasn't all that happened Thursday around midnight. At 12:30 a.m. Friday, Rhinelander said she received another mysterious phone call from a man who also claimed to possess a fourth of the pilfered paintings. Rhinelander said she referred the man to Johnson, because he painted that particular mural...
Considering the billions of dollars the five bosses -- known collectively as the Medellin Cartel -- are believed to possess, they should have no shortage of safe havens. Nor has there been any short circuiting of the cartel's power. Last week, on the outskirts of Bogota, Colombia, a squad of four killers assassinated Colonel Jaime Ramirez, the respected chief of that country's antinarcotics force who led the highly successful Tranquilandia raid...