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...actually do spend a somewhat surprising amount of time at the Semitic Museum, but I must admit that the second-floor exhibit on "Nuzi and the Hurrians: Fragments from a Forgotten Past"--which I have passed many times on my way to my thesis adviser's office--never quite grabbed me. What drew me to the exhibit was an article in a New Jersey newspaper, entitled "Ancient Scandal Reads Like Today's News...
Following a tour of the Barker Center led by DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Annan and his wife, Nane, entered the second-floor Faculty room at 3:40 p.m. and were met with a standing ovation...
...that day, after Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman and Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic had affixed their signatures to the document under the crystal chandeliers of the Elysee Palace, Chirac and Clinton huddled alone in Chirac's second-floor office. The crux of their discussion that evening was what to do about Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his military commander, General Ratko Mladic. A senior French official who had recently returned from Bosnia had convinced Chirac that Mladic and Karadzic still controlled the situation on the ground and could derail the accords at any time...
...evening in Sarajevo, and a warm glow lit up the second-floor windows of the private home of a United Nations official. U.S. Ambassador to Croatia Peter W. Galbraith '73 sat across the table from Bosnian Prime Minister Haris Silajdzic and prepared for a tense dinner of diplomatic discussions...
...meeting rooms are mostly decorated with engravings, many rented from the Natural History Museum. One room is hung entirely with prints of birds, another with botanical prints, and another with etchings of Algonquin Indians. Black-and-white photographs of sports teams from decades past line the second-floor hallway...