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...midnight passed and the countdown approached zero, tension increased inside the lead-enclosed control room three miles from Ground Zero, and at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CFA), where project scientists put aside their munchies and listened intently--by an audio hook...
American Indian Astronomy--Dr. John Eddy, Harvard--Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden...
...least the third question is true. Boston Mayor Kevin White has said the first question is true (although he may regret saying it to the press). And Bostonians, swamping the Boston Globe with letters to the editor protesting the planned sale of the paintings to the Smithsonian Institution, have said that even if the second question isn't true. Boston harbors enough of our "heritage" to justify its claim to the portraits...
...chaos has reached such a pitch that Boston is suing the Smithsonian and the Boston Athenaeum (a historic library that really owns the works) to prevent the sale. Ted Kennedy flew quickly into town (from Washington, a city he evidently wants to spend more time in) to say he doesn't want the paintings to go to Washington. (What's good enough for Ted isn't good enough, for George, evidently. George died without ever seeing the national capital he helped plan...
...have to feel sorry for the Atheneum. It's 172 years old, its Beacon Street building needs repairs, and the demon inflation looms large. But just because the Smithsonian has $5 million to spend on two more portraits for the endless corridors of nameless faces in the National Portrait Gallery, doesn't mean the Atheneum should sell the portraits right out from under the MFA which has had them on loan since...