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...Cambridge Rent Control Board is scheduled to decide later this month whether to allow Harvard to proceed with its multimillion dollar conversion plans...
...increasingly resent the continued Israeli occupation. Many of them blame the Israeli presence for the sporadic factional fighting between Christians and Muslims in the hilly Chouf and Aley regions a few miles southeast of Beirut. Meanwhile, the Israelis and the Lebanese have not agreed even on how to proceed with the withdrawal negotiations. The Israelis want to talk directly with the Lebanese about all aspects of future relations between the two countries. The Lebanese, determined to strengthen their Arab ties, prefer to use the U.S. as a middleman and, for the time being, to limit any talks to military questions...
READING ABOUT a place one has never seen can be annoying oftenulienating Songs and books about Los Angeles are particularly frustrating in this way. Writers often proceed to glorify the city without explaining any of the images, assuming audiences know the place right down to its exist ramps A few works transcend this subject. The Door's "L.A. Woman" goes beyond the image of a city at night and imposes a sense...
...hacking), cuspy (anything that is exceptionally good or performs its functions exceptionally well), dink (to modify in some small way so as to produce large or catastrophic results), bag biter (equipment or program that fails, usually intermittently) and deadlock (a situation wherein two or more processes are unable to proceed because each is waiting for the other to do something. This is the electronic equivalent of gridlock, a lovely, virtually perfect word that describes automobile traffic paralyzed both ways through an intersection). The hacker's lexicon is endless and weirdly witty, and inspiring in a peculiar way: the human...
...their pet, their lab rat, their ignorant savior. In Heart of Glass (1976), a mountaintop savant predicts the fall of a small village's glass industry; panic and madness ensue. Herzog paints his pictures in colors as vivid as dream life and instructs his actors to proceed with the elegant gravity of silent-film stars. Aguirre, Kaspar and Heart of Glass are three solitary landmark films of the past decade...