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...display and sell their art. It’s unique—the first of its kind at Harvard—and the show’s organizers have secured the grassy expanse in front of the Science Center as a location for the show’s tent. Visibility is key, and as the hub of student culture, this space is the most strategic location for the show.Prices will start at around $20, appealing to both student palates and student budgets, and increase to indeterminately higher numbers. The higher-priced pieces will target professors, collectors, and curators. Through such...
...Ukraine, and many of the good folks of those lands will be hopping on a plane to Brussels. Not only does nobody want to leave but France, which left NATO's integrated military command 43 years ago, has just now returned. In the past, France preferred being outside the tent. Now, President Nicolas Sarkozy has decided that it is better to be inside, rubbing shoulders with the American giant and thus looking like a colossus himself...
...authorities in Sankt Poelten are making the most of their sleepy, baroque town's misfortune of being the venue for perhaps the most grotesque trial in Austria's history. A large marquee reminiscent of a beer tent, flanked by sausage stands and a mobile sweetshop, has been erected outside the courtroom to accommodate the hundreds of journalists who've arrived here to follow the trial of Josef Fritzl. The septuagenarian engineer is charged with repeatedly raping his daughter over the 24 years that he kept her locked in a prison beneath his house and fathering seven children...
...talks were extended until Monday night, raising the expectation that Hamas might agree to free the captive soldier, who is hidden somewhere in Gaza. "It's been very tough," Noam Shalit told TIME. "But we can't give up. I have no alternative but to be here, in this tent." But as of Tuesday morning, the envoys had returned from the Cairo talks without a deal on Shalit's release. Diskin and the other negotiator, Ofer Dekel, are due to brief ministers at a special cabinet meeting Tuesday afternoon...
...eventual deal, the cabinet may then vote on whether Israel should agree to Hamas terms' for a prisoner exchange. It will be Olmert's last chance to redeem his scandal-ridden tenure as Prime Minister. And like a shadow - or a guilty conscience - Noam Shalit will leave his tent and follow Olmert to his office. There, Shalit will take up a position on a wooded hill across from the Premier's window to remind Olmert that, above politics and all else, it is the life of his son that hangs in the balance. On Tuesday, it will be 996 days...