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...Some clerics in Najaf told TIME that Sadr has left quietly, and that his office there is still keeping up the pretense that he is in town. ?When you ask for a meeting with Moqtada, they say, 'He's busy,'? said one cleric, who asked not to be identified for fear of reprisals from Sadr's supporters. ?After they did that a few times, it became clear that he was no longer in Najaf...
...Hariri was speaking hours after two remote-controlled bombs, filled with steel pellets, exploded minutes apart in two buses near the Christian town of Bikfaya in the Lebanese mountains 20 miles north of Beirut. The blasts killed three people and wounded over 20, heightening tensions a day before hundreds of thousands of Lebanese are expected to converge on downtown Beirut to commemorate Rafik Hariri's murder two years ago. Hariri condemned the explosions as an "act of terrorism" that aimed to "fill the hearts of people with fear." "I can't tell you that they [the perpetrators] haven't succeeded...
...object of her affection, science historian Charles Rosenberg, told her, “Knock ’em dead.” She walked to the door alone.While the board members listened to the Radcliffe dean make her case yesterday, a gaggle of reporters and Town Car chauffeurs congregated on Quincy Street in anxious and somewhat less anxious anticipation, respectively.Cuisine Chez Vous delivered sustenance to the board members through a side door, but an employee fended off questions about the meeting inside.“I can’t talk to anyone,” the caterer told...
...wall and listened. She took notes on a legal pad in an overflowing leather binder. Occasionally she checked her e-mail on a large, vintage BlackBerry with a green monochrome screen. The dean of Radcliffe, Drew Gilpin Faust, was a quiet observer at the sometimes-contentious Oct. 10 town hall meeting held by a University-wide science planning committee. At the meeting, a handful of Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) professors pushed back against the committee’s proposal to centralize some science teaching and research across the University. Faust is an observer no more. As Harvard president...
Beijing has many charms for visitors: the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, weird and wonderful new architecture, a slew of museums celebrating China's millennia of culture and history. The list is long. But even the most academically inclined out-of-town visitor invariably ends up asking - somewhat sheepishly - whether I can give them directions to the "Fake Market." There are actually several of these, each a four- or five-story building jammed with stalls selling everything from shoes to toys, handbags, DVD players, watches, pearls, electronics, sports equipment. Almost everything in these establishments bears a famous name brand, often...