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...Until his arrest last Friday on kidnapping charges, Michael Devlin, 41, led a life that seemed limited to a three- or four-mile radius from the place he grew up, Webster Groves, an upscale suburb of St. Louis. "He was just a big, friendly marshmallow," said one neighbor who knew Devlin in his youth. When he finally moved out of his parents' home, where he lived in an apartment above the garage, he set up residence in an apartment complex in Kirkwood, about three miles away. For 25 years, he worked at Imo's, a pizza parlor even closer...
...painting in Leverett Dining Hall. This garish work was commissioned by the Leverett House master in 1990. The artist, Jerald Webster, made three paintings and the master chose which one his house would display. I can only imagine how ugly the other two must have been. 2. The mural in Quincy Dining Hall. It’s like a really big, flat sand castle turned on its side and painted. Enough said. 3. Laurence Tribe’s paintings. Why is a superstar professor of constitutional law painting pictures to illustrate constitutional history? And why are they...
...first James Bond movie, Dr. No--and the audience lets out a little gasp of sexual admiration, the voyeur's version of applause. But this body belongs to Daniel Craig, the new 007, and with his Sisyphus shoulders and pecs so well defined they could be in Webster's, it's no surprise that the camera lingers lovingly to investigate the topography of his splendidly buff torso. If Craig spends more time with his shirt off than all previous Bonds combined, it's to make the point that this secret agent is his own sex object. In any romance...
...with Grey in 2001. His spokeswoman Jennifer Millerwise Dyke said in an e-mail that "although that may have been the first time Mr. Grey heard the term, it certainly is not the first time the U.S. government publicly discussed this decades-old tool." Indeed, then-CIA Director William Webster told the Washington Post in 1989 that the Department of Justice had created the term "renditions" after the shootdown of the Pan Am jet over Lockerbie, Scotland. The process was aimed at capturing those responsible abroad and bringing them back to the United States. Later, his successor George Tenet told...
...Both page programs trace their roots to 1829, when Senator Daniel Webster appointed a 9-year-old boy to be his personal gopher. Since then thousands of young men - and eventually young women - have come to Washington to run errands for the members of Congress. Like many jobs in Washington, getting hired as a page often means having the right political connections. The work is also grueling, especially during the school year, when pages start class at 6:45 a.m. and can stay on the House or Senate floor late into the night...