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DIED. LEW AYRES, 88, actor; in Los Angeles. In a career spanning six decades, he starred in All Quiet on the Western Front, played opposite Greta Garbo and portrayed Dr. Kildare in the MGM film series. During World War II, Ayres provoked an outcry by declining combat duty. (He served as a medic and chaplain's aide.) Weathering the controversy, he went on to receive an Oscar nomination for his role in Johnny Belinda...
...past few weeks I traveled campus noticing the lull, the quiet almost-ignorance that accompanied one of the worst spells of Harvard football in recent memory, two straight losses—one badly, one to an Ivy doormat—before the recent righting of the ship. Where was the dismay, the outrage, but mostly the surprise? Besides the usual complaints over lack of student fan participation, it struck me as the symptom of either a disappointing lack of context, the assumption among many students that at such an elite academic institution, the team should be bad, blind...
Iraq went to the polls on Saturday and, after 19 violent days that saw more than 450 Iraqi civilians killed, Baghdad was relatively calm for the vote. The quiet may be an indication that the draconian security measures that banned almost all vehicular traffic, international travel and movement between provinces were effective in curbing insurgents' attacks. Still, the night before the vote, insurgents sabotaged an electrical tower, plunging the city and northern towns into darkness. There were also reports of gun battles between insurgents, on one hand, and U.S. and Iraqi troops in Ramadi and other western towns Saturday, causing...
...deceptively simple words: “You had me worried/so worried that this would last.” James’ ragged voice is so captivatingly emotional that just that one line suffices. The group then builds into a high-register guitar solo before drifting back into the quiet sonic coma in which the song—and Z itself—began. The song’s denouement lasts approximately two full minutes, but when it finally fades into silence, you’ll undoubtedly feel compelled to start it over again, unlike the album as a whole...
...School of Design (GSD), Cobb has finally built something in his own backyard—literally. Taking up the grassy space behind and next to the GSD, the University’s new Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS) sits on both sides of Cambridge Street as if quietly defying (or perhaps anxiously awaiting) his alma mater’s judgment. And quiet is precisely what is heard from most members of the GSD faculty, who will not comment. But while design experts stood by quietly, local residents protested the construåction of CGIS, and the City...