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...unusually surprising move with broad implications for the future of both Harvard and humanity, the University and Britain's House of Windsor have arranged a swap of their leading image-makers...
Queen Elizabeth II and Harvard President Derek C. Bok announced the swap in an elaborate joint news conference, held simultaneously in London and Harvard Yard and beamed to both locations by satellite...
Neither Rosen nor Prince Charles could be reached for comment. But their bosses, Bok and the Queen, explained that the swap was arranged by mutual consent...
...least two high-ranking commanders, and provided safe passage out of the country for 101 disabled guerrillas in exchange for the release of the two women and 23 mayors and municipal officials who had been abducted by the rebels over the past six months. Duarte's critics condemned the swap, saying that the President ignored the mayors' plight until his daughter was taken hostage. Said Hugo Barrera, an industrialist and a conservative political leader: "He didn't act as a chief of state but as a father...
...time of these revelations, we had decided to be roommates. We had built up a little circle of friends that made us happy. Almost every night, we would sit around, drink vodka and smoke too many cigarettes, and swap exaggerated stories like minor-league Twains. In my words, he had appealed to me in a way that few people can to any one individual. In his words, we were brothers...