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This spring, W. Hugo Van Vuuren ’07 wanted change, so he called together a “band of brothers.” Their target? Hegemony...
...teams are generally very good at verifying ID and the nitpicky details, but we’ve had some trouble with them,” says Todd van Stolk-Riley ’06, Lowell HoCo Treasurer, explaining that during the first Lowell Bacchanalia, BAT team members initially refused to open up four bars for alcohol. Several HoCo leaders also claim that BAT team members have trouble dealing with logistical aspects of the party, and do more harm than good...
...David Van Biema: The choice reflects a number of things: A desire for continuity with the papacy of John Paul II, which the cardinals believe - correctly or incorrectly - that Ratzinger best represents, having been more intimately involved with the last papacy than anybody expect John Paul II himself. As the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, he was John Paul II's theological enforcer for almost a quarter century. A second consideration would probably be that Ratzinger was almost universally acknowledged as one of only a handful of cardinals possessing the gravitas to take...
Like the blues, slapstick comedy and the .400 hitter, the murder mystery enjoyed its golden age in the 1920s. That was the epoch of Agatha Christie and Ronald Knox, of G.K. Chesterton and S.S. Van Dine. The mystery craze gripped every age, sex and temperament; it spread so wide that it was parodized by P.G. Wodehouse. Back then it seemed possible to believe, as Playwright Anthony Shaffer later joshed in Sleuth, that mysteries were "the normal recreation of noble minds...
...from Viet Nam in 1973, relations between the two countries have been frozen, in part over Hanoi's failure to cooperate with the U.S. in accounting for 1,787 American G.I.s listed as missing in action. In a bid to break the diplomatic impasse, the government of Premier Pham Van Dong last summer promised to resolve the MIA dispute within two years. Hanoi offered to identify and turn over to the U.S. the remains of any American soldiers it found. Washington insisted on direct participation in any Vietnamese search...