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...same time that patriotic sentiments swept across the nation, a countermovement of peace activists slowly took shape on campus with several student organizations...
...They swept both awards, and only one of the three finalists for Miss Harvard was, in fact, a woman...
...pilgrims to Shanksville still exude the same manic patriotism that swept the U.S. immediately after Sept. 11. On a recent afternoon, 150 members of Rotary International, brandishing small American flags, descended on the site in three tour buses. The Rev. Duane Slade paid homage to the passengers who went down fighting: "We must recognize those who died to save our country from even greater loss," he intoned, before leading the crowd in a rendition of God Bless America...
Wednesday, as word swept through the courthouse that a verdict had been reached, a crush of spectators pressed into the downtown courtroom. The forewoman began to read: "In the case of the State of Alabama versus Bobby Frank Cherry, we find the defendant guilty...
...theory has it that the reclining statue may be entombed within the actual mountainside, in a long chamber whose entrances were sealed up long ago, when the first Islamic invaders swept into the valley. But most archaeologists believe that the Buddha was out in the open and later buried either by an earthquake or the crumbling sandstone cliff above it. Either way, it has apparently been saved from the Taliban's predations centuries later. Jean-FranCois Jarrige, director of the Guimet Museum of Asiatic Art in Paris, was in Bamiyan recently, walking gingerly along a path cleared in the minefield...