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President Drew G. Faust is $50,000 wealthier after her new book won an award from the New York Historical Society last Wednesday. Louise Mirrer, CEO and President of the New York Historical Society, offered many reasons for the selection of Faust’s book, ‘This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War.’ “It is a great book,” Mirrer said, “a fascinating book.” According to her, Faust’s book stood out among the other finalists?...
Want to know if you should take that Gordon's shot at Leverett House next Wednesday night? We've got an asset by asset breakdown of the house after the jump...
...Rating: BBB.* Leverett House will never evoke the kinds of emotions that an Adams, a Mather, or the Quad (didn't say they had to be good emotions) does. When you tell your friends you’re a “Rising Rabbit,” next Wednesday, their facial expression probably won’t budge one bit. But you should really be quite pleased. In fact, if you find out you’re in Lev, breathe a long sigh of relief. There's some really low quality real estate out there, even right next door...
...Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and China's Foreign Minister, Yang Jiechi, both agreed on Wednesday that China and the U.S. should work to ensure that incidents like Sunday's showdown in the South China Sea "do not happen again." The incident in question involved several Chinese naval vessels harassing a U.S. surveillance ship off the island of Hainan. But despite the soothing words of the two top diplomats, it's a safe bet that more such incidents can be expected in the future. The Pentagon was quick to note that the mariners aboard the U.S.N.S. Impeccable were civilians working...
...repeated around the world by other media outlets. In fact, about half its roughly 50-member crew is military.) "The Chinese, like the North Koreans, the Indians and the Soviets, maintain positive control of fishing fleets which come under military supervision in a crisis," McCreary said on NightWatch on Wednesday. "Fishing boats are built to military standards, usually have weapons mounts or fittings for depth charges and have military-approved communications." Thankfully, this time at least, the Impeccable slipped through...