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...Washington, has ruled out the option of military action for dealing with Iran's nuclear program. By contrast, if the Iranians had captured U.S. personnel, it's not hard to imagine (particularly given the legacy of the 1979 hostage crisis) that the crisis would have an altogether more cataclysmic ring; indeed, a senior U.S. commander working alongside the British forces in the region told a British newspaper that U.S. troops caught in a similar situation would not have surrendered to the Iranians without a fight...
...clear-cut. “Eighteen bells for eighteen bells, that’s it,” she said. In addition to the bell swap, Eck said, the agreement includes a future endowment to support cultural exchange and provide the musical training necessary to learn how to ring the new bells. Lowell House will be closed off to residents during the summer of 2008 in order to facilitate installation of the new bells, according to Eck. The old bells will be taken down around the time of next year’s commencement, she said, and will be accompanied...
...believe the students take anything from the mailrooms,” he says. He suspects address confusion is the true culprit. Since Eliot House is on Dunster Street, packages are sometimes accidentally delivered to Dunster House—in fact, one Eliot resident’s thousand-dollar wedding ring was once shipped to the wrong dormitory. But what’s a thesis-writing, movie-craving student to do? The only option seems to be curling up with a DVD from Lamont’s extensive selection (want to watch “Ben-Hur” again?) until...
...Project runs the program, and the testing is conducted by an outside lab called Genetic ID. In a few weeks, Straus expects to become the first food manufacturer in the country to carry the label in addition to his "organic" one. With Whole Foods in the ring, the rest of the industry will soon be under competitive pressure to follow...
...five days later we get a call and learn that he is in jail.” Purdy was also scheduled for a pretrial hearing yesterday in connection with a rape charge still pending against him. According to Silverman, the two women involved in Purdy’s prostitution ring had not been prosecuted. One of them was taken into custody and given a pretrial probation. The other woman was not arrested. —Yelena S. Mironova