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...jolting his wife's realm out of its lethargy. "There is a school of thought," Prince Philip said in an official speech as Elizabeth's husband, "which says, 'What was good enough for my fa ther is good enough for me.' I have no quarrel with this sentiment at all, so long as it is not used as an excuse for stagnation . . . but do not forget that the great position of British industry was won when we led the world in inventive imagination and the spirit of adventure." The Queen Is Leaving. Like most young couples...
...days after a flawed parliamentary election that ended up producing more losers than winners, Thaksin said it was time for him to hand over power to an as yet unknown successor - though he would remain caretaker leader until a new government is formed. "We have no time to quarrel," he said. "I want to see Thai people unite and forget what has happened...
DePaul University Professor Norman G. Finkelstein, who sparked an impassioned quarrel two years ago when he accused Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz of plagiarism, will make a controversial appearance on his opponent’s home turf tomorrow to deliver a speech on the Israel-Palestine conflict.In an interview last week, Finkelstein said that he plans to present a summarized version of the introduction to his latest book, “Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History.” In the book, Finkelstein decries what he calls...
...their popcorn. In conversations with Harvard students, faculty, and alumni, managers from competing area film venues, and the directors of the Brattle, The Harvard Crimson explores the question of what turned the ardent romance between the independent cinema and the bohemian Harvard Square into the lover’s quarrel threatening to oust the Brattle today.AN UPHILL BRATTLEFinancial problems are no stranger to the Brattle. Created as a live performance space in 1946, which John I. Simon ’46, theater reviewer for Bloomberg News, remembers as “a very lively place with all kinds of theatricals...
...started innocuously enough when Air Force General Frank Vargas Pazos, 51, chief of Ecuador's joint armed forces command, complained that he had not been informed of a practice alert at the Defense Ministry in Quito. The impetuous Vargas, who is nicknamed "Loco," quickly found himself in a quarrel with the Defense Minister, General Luis Pieiros Rivera, and the army chief, General Manuel Maria Albuja. Shots were heard inside the ministry. Pieiros promptly fired Vargas, who in turn charged Pieiros with accepting a kickback in the purchase of a plane for the national airline. Vargas also alleged...