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...string of bad luck began as the 1981 school year wound to a close, when a local teenager set fire to Harvard Stadium’s press...
...According to Jack P. Reardon Jr. ’60, who was Harvard’s director of athletics in 1982, the blaze—accidentally set by a straggler who had taken to living in the press box—was just one in the long line of proverbial cries for help from a facility desperately in need of repair...
...Bank’s Board of Governors, who are appointed to five-year terms by the Bank’s member countries. “Bob Zoellick has had a long and distinguished career in diplomacy and development economics,” said the President in a press conference last week. “It has prepared him well for this new assignment.” Zoellick has filled a number of prominent government posts, most recently serving as United States Deputy Secretary of State from February 2005 to July 2006 and U.S. Trade Representative from February 2001 to February...
...presenter Patrick Lodiers, referring to the notoriety the youth-oriented network has gained from previous controversial shows. But the network's stated intention had always been to raise awareness of the shortage of donor organs. "We wanted to make a statement," BNN chairman Laurens Drillich said in a press release after the show. "That worked. In the past seven days there has been more debate about organ donation than in the last seven years...
...show received widespread media attention, including an article on TIME.com this week. Just before the show aired, Prime Minister Jan-Peter Balkenende remarked in his weekly press conference that the program hurts the image of the country abroad. Referring to the dozens of foreign media covering the show, he asked "if the country should be happy with this sort of publicity." A few days ago, some legislators had urged media minister Ronald Plasterk to stop the show. While calling the show "inappropriate and unethical," Plasterk said the constitution barred him from interfering with the content of public broadcasting...