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...that of the cerebral poet. Schiller's friend Johann Wolfgang von Goethe later took the memento mori home to muse upon; he even wrote a reverential poem entitled Lines on Seeing Schiller's Skull. Since 1827, this cranium has had a place of honor in Weimar's ducal vault, later joined by Goethe's remains in what has become a shrine to German literature's Golden...
...Mazuz reportedly kept the President's dossier locked away in a vault as it included potentially devastating testimony from at least 10 women who claimed that over the past 15 years, first as Transportation Minister, then as President, Katsav had sexually harassed and raped female underlings. Katsav denies the charges. On June 28, Mazuz dropped his bombshell. Instead of indicting the President on rape charges, the Attorney General cut a deal with him. Katsav is expected to resign and be indicted on lesser charges of sexual harassment and indecent behavior. And, to the outrage of many Israeli commentators and feminists...
...says, military officers surrounded the compound, demanding the drugs and threatening to shoot their way in. The police relented, and the soldiers loaded the cocaine - stored in 1-kg packets - onto a pickup truck and drove it to the crumbling Treasury building, where they placed it in a locked vault. Within days, the entire load vanished. "The drugs were for [the military]," says Djedjo. Shortly after, the Attorney General ordered Djedjo to release the Colombians, he says; the men were never seen again...
...Colton and his colleagues recognize that these reforms might not vault government to the top of student satisfaction surveys. For a large department, a low score on satisfaction surveys “probably goes with the territory,” Colton says...
...NCAA Regionals, finishing ninth and also narrowly missing the automatic cut for nationals. However, based on the strength of her previous performances, Christensen earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Championships, to be held in Sacramento, Calif. from June 6-9. The pole vault was also an area of strength for the Crimson, with three strong junior vaulters. Clara Blattler took first at indoor Heptagonals, while co-captain Sally Stanton and Jitka Tomas were competitive all season. Tomas showed some versatility by also placing second in the triple jump at the event. Strong Harvard performances dotted the pentathlon...