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...more fanciful characters inhabit. The Cullens are a fastidious family of vampires; in their tennis whites, with their regal airs, they resemble the aristocratic Flyte brood in Brideshead Revisited. They call themselves vegetarians because they drink the blood of animals, not people. They can fly, move with lightning speed, scale trees in a trice. They also play baseball, which in the Cullen clan is a lot like Rowling's Quidditch. Their ball-playing, and the scent of human snack food, will attract the notice of a trio of rogue vampires, whose leader, James (Cam Gigandet), is a demon simulacrum...
...program that the Council had floated previously. “We’re more ambitious than that,” Rubenstein said. “We want people to envision biking from Cambridge to Bridgeport.” But Seidel said that he was concerned such a large-scale program would stall. “Community to community cooperation can take a lot of work to get a very small distance,” he said. City Councilor Craig Kelley added that he thought Cambridge streets might not be safe enough to support such a program. At the beginning...
...adherents in North Africa and Yemen, preparing its return, but it certainly is no longer in a position to destabilize Saudi Arabia or any other Arab country. And, although Hayden didn't say it, there is no good evidence that bin Laden is capable of mounting a large-scale attack. He failed to pull off an October surprise, as many in the FBI and CIA feared he would...
...LeWitt visited Mass MoCA, where he settled on Building Seven. Though he never returned to the site, he designed the installation himself, working with a scale model at his studio in Grafton, Conn. Mass MoCA engaged the architecture firm Bruner/Cott & Associates to produce a clean-lined renovation. Then the drawings were painstakingly executed over a six-month period by a combination of veteran LeWitt studio assistants, college students and local artists, about 70 people in all. The entire project, which also involves the nearby Williams College Museum of Art, cost $7.3 million...
...original idea of a CPR and first aid training day was to provide low-cost classes on a small scale, according to Natasa Kovacevic ’10, co-president of the Harvard Friends of the American Red Cross...