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...arrive on Saturday for another ceremony along with a delegation of more than 80 Polish officials and relatives of the victims of the Katyn massacres. "I hope I get a visa," Kaczynski had joked when announcing the visit. As part of the ceremony, he was due to receive an urn of soil from the forests were the thousands of Polish officers had been executed with a bullet to the base of the neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plane Crash Kills Polish President: A Blow to Russia-Poland Relations | 4/10/2010 | See Source »

...board games?" He calls his new partner "pard," which is intended to make fun of the dorkiness of people who call each other "pard," but instead just makes Charlie seem dorky. He tosses dead bodies down the world's largest spiral staircase while James hangs back, horrified, clutching an urn full of cocaine (which most people would have left in the car). Charlie also has a quickie with a prostitute, snorts some of said cocaine on the Eiffel Tower and shoots a woman in the head at a dinner party. Yet still, the conviction of his cool eludes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Paris With Love: Homage Overkill | 2/5/2010 | See Source »

...women’s and rookie boats also posted strong showings for Harvard in less-than-ideal conditions, taking fourth place at the Victorian Coffee Urn and ninth in the Nickerson Trophy freshman regatta, respectively. With the fourth-place finish, the women also qualified for the Women’s Atlantic Coast Championship at Brown in two weeks...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Qualifies for ACCs | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

VICTORIAN COFFEE URN...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Qualifies for ACCs | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

...Marquis contemplates the mysteries of Tepe Zargaran that he will never be able to unravel, a shout rings out from the other side of the excavation site. Ahmad Basir, a grinning 19-year-old, holds aloft a clay urn the length of his forearm. It took Basir several hours of painstaking work with a scalpel to free the artifact from the earth where it had lain. Before the archaeologists came, he explains, looters would simply hack away at a site with axes and shovels until they found statues or gold jewelry. "We didn't care about pots," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan: A Treasure Trove for Archaeologists | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

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