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...Boucher announced that the State Department has recalled the ambassador to Syria, Margaret Scobey, for “urgent consultations” in Washington. Before leaving, Scobey delivered a message to the Syrian government expressing the United States’ “deep concern as well as our profound outrage over this heinous act of terrorism,” according to a press release on the State Department website...
...crime, and have warned President Emil Lahoud and other members of his government to stay away from Wednesday's funeral lest their presence provoke violence. The U.S. responded to the killing by demanding Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon, and by summoning home its Damascus ambassador in order to express its ?profound outrage? over Hariri's death. The Bush administration has stopped short of directly accusing Syria of complicity, although it has not hidden the obvious implications of its actions - and has warned that it holds Syria responsible because of its domination of Lebanon...
...spring of 1947 that the 31-year-old Arthur Miller heard the sweetest--and most profound--birdsong of his life. After a decade of struggle he had finally achieved a hit Broadway play, All My Sons, and with its proceeds bought a farm in Roxbury, Conn. Leaving his family behind in Brooklyn, he repaired to the country, built himself a cabin-studio (he was a great carpenter), settled down at a crude desk he had also fashioned and began writing. He had a first line for a new play in mind, and some thoughts about its tragic theme...
Voluck and Shattuck—whose mother is also a BU part-time instructor—were both students of the College of General Studies, and despite the school’s large student population of 29,000, their deaths had a profound impact on the campus...
...After Tomorrow was leaving behind the warm breezes of Hollywood to plunge into wintry Berlin, because he heads the judging panel at this year's Berlin Film Festival, which starts this week. That a Hollywood player like Emmerich was chosen for the job hints at the profound changes that have swept the German movie industry. Though his country's art house élite despises his commercial movies, he can expect a warm welcome this year from a film community that has matured and broadened during his 20-year absence. German film is more popular than at any time in recent...