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...Thursday, 32 tribal sheiks from the region - mostly Sunni, but including some Shiites - signed a groundbreaking accord pledging to work together to curb extremism and to shake the sectarian violence that has rent the region since the U.S. forces invaded the country in 2003. The rare gathering at Baghdad's al Rashid Hotel, in the heart of the Green Zone, was the culmination of months of delicate negotiations and a welcome breakthrough for U.S. troops who've been fighting and dying there for the past 14 months. "You know the saying: that all politics is local. Well you really...
...that news is hardly satisfying. North Allston and Brighton are largely working-class neighborhoods—resource-poor in terms of money, but resource-rich in terms of its diverse residents. If Harvard expands without concern for the residents of Allston and Brighton, many Allston residents (particularly those that rent their homes) will be priced out of the area and will have to move. For homeowners, the value of their house will rise, but the community that they joined will disappear, and in its place will be an inaccessible campus that resembles the bricked-off Business School...
...Renting a Cessna: $100 per hour. Hiring a flight instructor: $45 per hour. Being able to legitimately rock those aviator sunglasses: priceless. While flying—and style—can run up a hefty bill, one freshman is hoping to bring at least the former to Harvard’s campus. Emanual C. Beica ’11 doesn’t have a driver’s license, but he did qualify for his private pilot’s license when he was 17 and has an advanced ground instructor certificate. Beica is organizing an aviation club...
...Graham carried the audience through the emotional narrative suggested in her performance of three poems, Tristan Klingsor’s “Asie,” “La Flûte enchantée,” and “L’Indifférent.” First wistful, then almost conversational, Graham engaged the audience with her poignant renderings of longing and succeeded in creating an air of mystery, although her performance was more suggestive than overtly passionate...
After Disney, came more than 200 rent-paying episodes of TV--roles as the bully or the friend in kid shows and teen soaps--and a small part in his first film, Remember the Titans, in 2000. But it wasn't until later that year, on the set of The Believer, Gosling says, that "I realized I would act for free." Since then, by Hollywood standards, he virtually has, opting mostly for low-budget indies over the kind of effects spectaculars that buy a guy his first yacht. "Everyone's like 'Wow, you really slummed it on Half Nelson...