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...Summers, the result of today’s meeting and the six subsequent sessions this semester is difficult to predict. “The Faculty and the Faculty Council have been working through the fall to move us forward in various ways,” said Classics Department Chair Richard F. Thomas, a member of the council. But, he added, “obviously when the dean of the Faculty resigns in the middle of that, the situation changes...My sense is that it’s not certain how we will proceed.” The situation facing...
...American Richard Bangs, an international river explorer and award-winning author of Riding the Dragon's Back, about his first descent on China's Yangtze River, has led first river-boarding descents on 35 rivers worldwide. Bangs says that the rivers that cascade down such mountain ranges as the upward-thrusting Himalayas and Andes run rapidly continuously, leaving no room for human error. But the Zambezi gives boarders a chance to rest, "in that it has a beautifully designed sequence: a big rapid is almost always followed by a calm pool...
...have flipped more inflatable rafts than any other rapids in the world. Then there's the wildlife: hippos' snouts break the surface of the water; baboon families clamber around at its edge and while only baby crocodiles survive the drop from the falls, they do grow up downstream. American Richard Bangs, an international river explorer and award-winning author of Riding the Dragon's Back, about his first descent on China's Yangtze River, has led first river-boarding descents on 35 rivers worldwide. Bangs says that the rivers that cascade down such mountain ranges as the upward-thrusting Himalayas...
...Among those who have weighed in on the domestic eavesdropping controversy are Harvard’s Ames Professor of Law Philip B. Heymann and Appellate Court Judge Richard A. Posner, a professor at the University of Chicago. The debate between the two well-known scholars, which took place on the pages of a left-of-center magazine, The New Republic, incorporated questions of both legality and proper policy, with Posner concerned more with the program’s merits and Heymann with its conformity to the FISA statute...
...like Eisenhower’s farewell address—is a jeremiad warning of a future in which the institutions erected for our defense rule rather than serve our society. This Orwellian dystopia seems closer than ever to reality: in the film’s closing moments Jarecki captures Richard Perle, with an entourage of arms manufacturers in tow, strolling through the corridors of the Pentagon to finalize yet another weapons contract...