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...criminal is just a criminal and Mr. Polanski is a criminal. The artist is not above the law, moral standards and common decency. The golden myth of the artist hounded by a bigoted society should be a thing of the past. Feminism and republican ideals seem to be dying in France. Olivier Comte, NEUILLY-SUR-SEINE, FRANCE...
Finance and astronomy may not be completely incomprehensible, but in some ways, the technical jargon and inherent speciality of these fields can make them seem as boring as accounting and as intimidating as rocket science. Recently, in an effort to make their areas of interest more relevant and accessible for their peers, the Student Astronomers at Harvard-Radcliffe (STAHR) and A Drop in the Ocean (ADITO), a non-profit microfinance organization run by Harvard students, have similarly adapted their interests for artistic purposes...
Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., who was arrested by Cambridge police for breaking into his own house in July, went pubbing with Sgt. James Crowley at River Gods Bar & Restaurant last night. The two seem to have become way more chummy since the summer, when Gates virulently alleged that he had been racial profiled by police and called on Crowley to "beg my forgiveness...
Nearby, painted wooden slaves work at routine tasks. There are also bakeries, granaries, and tables laden with food—Djehutynakt apparently spared no daily comforts when planning for the afterlife. The statues are rudimentary. The slaves walk with stiff, jointless limbs, and their figures seem to lurch rather than to move. Despite their rigidity, the figures exude a captivating energy. Several models show slaves feeding oxen, the prostrate beasts reaching their heads forward to the hands of the kneeling slaves. This is an aspect of Egyptian life not captured in the impersonal statues of kings...
...opposition, however, challenged the election results like never before. Three days after the vote, and for the first time this decade, all of the opposition members of parliament stormed out of the chamber in protest over the vote, leaving the United Russia deputies on their own. (They didn't seem to mind - they passed 19 laws in little more than an hour that...