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...least six occasions Laghi came to the White House and met with Clark or the President; each time, he entered the White House through the southwest gate in order to avoid reporters. "By keeping in such close touch, we did not cross lines," says Laghi. "My role was primarily to facilitate meetings between Walters and the Holy Father. The Holy Father knew his people. It was a very complex situation -- how to insist on human rights, on religious freedom, and keep Solidarity alive without provoking the communist authorities further. But I told Vernon, 'Listen to the Holy Father. We have...
...filmmaker Nicholas Clapp happened upon an explorer's evidence of an ancient road to Ubar. After unearthing more information from texts at the Huntington Library, Clapp teamed up with lawyer George Hedges to raise money and organize an expedition. They later recruited two Arabia experts, archaeologist Juris Zarins of Southwest Missouri State University and British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes...
Klinkenborg said that he will be working throughout the Southwest, especially in northeastern Arizona, where he hopes to study the Hopi tribe's health care history...
...instance, he cites global warming as the reason why an egg can be fried on some streets in the Southwest. Gore actually starts the book by telling the foreboding story of the Aral Sea, now no longer a sea but a desert--thanks to the abuses of humans (there are even pictures to prove it). Gore continues his list of horror by relating numerous stories about cultures around the world that are self-destructing...
...same time, however, it is quite clear that something has changed in the southwest corner office of Massachusetts Hall. There sits a man who listens a little better than Bok, who is more likely to change his mind in the course of a one-hour meeting and who has a far clearer conception of the University as a whole...