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...friendship, that he reacted to disaster in that way, that was instructive,” said Chris J. Dowdy, a student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. “It was so compelling.” Audience members who had packed the pews of Memorial Church stood in line for over half an hour after the event ended to get copies of the book signed. —Staff writer Brenda C. Maldonado can be reached at bmaldon@fas.harvard.edu...
...certain that Reid can come up with wording that will unify his own caucus. And already, even the moderate Republicans who stood with the Democrats two weeks ago on a much milder, non-binding resolution, have signaled their opposition to anything like a rewrite of the authorization of force resolution. "They are grasping at straws," said an aide to a Republican who voted with the Democrats two weeks ago. "My boss will never support it." An aide to a more conservative Senator, who doesn't like what's going on in Iraq but is not willing to oppose the President...
Eight bottles stood in a row, many with slightly tattered labels, the green glass turning inky the deep ruby of the wine. Here in the Harvard Observatory, Senior Lecturer on Astronomy David W. Latham is showing his colleagues and students some burgundies from his personal cellar. Latham, like other confessed oenophiles at Harvard, loves teaching everyone else what the fuss over good wine is all about...
...forces left Lebanon in 2000. But after the assassination in February 2005 of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, a Sunni, intra-Muslim antagonism began to harden. Sunnis blamed Hizballah's patron, the Syrian government, for the killing. While faulting Hizballah for provoking last summer's war, many Lebanese Sunnis stood with Hizballah in the face of Israel's onslaught against the country. But any residual Sunni admiration for Hizballah vanished by the end of the year, when Hizballah led a campaign to bring down the government of Hariri's longtime friend Fouad Siniora...
...that he might have used paints developed by Robert (Robi) Rebetez, a Swiss art supplier and Herbert Matter’s brother-in-law.” Almost as soon as they were discovered, scholars began to question whether the works were really Pollocks.THE BATTLE CONTINUESIf anyone has stood at the epicenter of the debate, it is Ellen Landau, Mellon professor of the humanities at Case Western Reserve University. Landau has long been known for her work on Pollock—a Jan. 30, 2007 New York Times article describes her as “one of the world?...