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Breaking new ground last summer, a Harvard archaeologist directed the American half of a joint U.S./Russian expedition that uncovered a previously unknown Bronze Age civilization...
...that he's a total unknown: Dire Straits has long been an arena headliner in Europe, where consequently they used to do 90 percent of their touring. But who could have guessed that America would embrace such an esoteric and forgotten art as the blues, especially when played with the bombast of The Who and the lilt of a Celtic wedding dance? Certainly not Knopfler...
Despite the disclosures in Le Monde, however, direct proof of government involvement was missing. A major breakthrough came from Le Canard Enchaine. In its Sept. 11 issue the magazine speculated that another, heretofore unknown, team of French agents might have been sent to New Zealand to blow up the ship. A week later Le Monde Reporters Bernard le Gendre and Edwy Plenel revealed that two frogmen had placed mines on the Rainbow Warrior before escaping. Their orders, the paper said, had to have come from a high level within the government, since none of the military figures involved would credibly...
...City. On a typical day last week, hundreds of bereaved relatives filed through San Lorenzo to pay their last respects to loved ones buried in hastily fashioned wooden coffins. Some 170 people were interred during a single day, a total that did not include the mass burial of an unknown number of mangled, unidentified corpses...
...worst case scenario: What would happen to the Harvard divestment movement if the CRR kicked out all of these activists? Would we see an end to protest activity, as the administration certainly hopes? Or would the movement take a new turn, under a different set of leaders, tactics unknown...