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...German relations have taken! Twinned by enduring mutual interest, the Federal Republic and the U.S. used to be the two cornerstones of the Atlantic alliance. Alas, no more. For reasons perhaps not fully fathomed by Schroder himself, the Chancellor moved from injury last summer, when he began to rail against U.S. "adventurism" and against war as an option, to insurrection this winter, when he threatened to vote against the U.S. in the U.N. Security Council. What began as a desperate ploy to save his sinking electoral campaign (it worked) has now escalated into barely masked antagonism toward the U.S. Schroder...
Lying on the outskirts of Harvard’s current Allston holdings are parcels encumbered with long-term leases, including Genzyme Pharmaceuticals, which has a lease near the Charles River until 2057, and CSX, which has permanent rights to a 47-acre piece of land for its rail lines...
Hagedorn's book could have offered more background on the slave empire and the workings of the Underground Rail-road beyond Ripley, Ohio, Rankin's town. But the ground-level focus gives Hagedorn's story the flavor and fire of an era when even the newspapers had names like the Agitator and the Castigator. And the Rankins turn out to be a redoubtable clan. After a gang of armed men demanded to search her house for a runaway slave, the minister's wife Jean did not bat an eyelash. "If you do not hereafter keep away you will feel...
Before he began to play, he stepped off the stage to personally thank and shake the hands of the better part of the audience. An impassioned opening speech, in which he expressed his belief that we must rail against our “generation of vipers” and seek our own independence, set the mood for the truly unique concert...
...part, Chair of GSD Planning and Design Krieger, who is on the faculty committee for housing, hopes that Harvard officials will push for the oft-mentioned dream of an “urban ring” subway or light rail line around Boston...