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Whereas Harvard’s current “single-choice early action” policy allows admitted students to apply elsewhere in the winter and spring, students admitted under Princeton’s “binding early decision” program must sign an agreement pledging that they will not apply elsewhere...
Afghanistan Force Seeking boots on the ground NATO commanders have asked for 2,500 more troops to fight the Taliban before the harsh winter hinders their efforts. Allied Defense Ministers are expected to reply at a meeting next week...
...paintings and installations are displayed in an Armenian church and a Hindu temple. About one-third of the world's major biennials take place in the Asia-Pacific area. While Singapore's biennial closes on Nov. 12, the region has plenty more in store for the fall and winter. Here's our pick of three must-see shows: TAIPEI: Taipei's Biennial - held from Nov. 4 this year to Feb. 25, 2007 - began life as a purely local exhibition at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum but soon blossomed into an international event. Since 2000, it has been jointly curated...
...reminded of all this recently, when I read the edition by Professor Theodore Khoury (M?nster) of part of the dialogue carried on - perhaps in 1391 in the winter barracks near Ankara - by the erudite Byzantine emperor Manuel II Paleologus and an educated Persian on the subject of Christianity and Islam, and the truth of both. It was presumably the emperor himself who set down this dialogue, during the siege of Constantinople between 1394 and 1402; and this would explain why his arguments are given in greater detail than those of his Persian interlocutor. The dialogue ranges widely over the structures...
...life, Stayner's kidnapper told him that his dad had died and his mother had signed custody of Stayner over to the kidnapper. "If you can convince a child that their parents don't care, then you own them," says J. Michael Bone, a mental health counselor in Winter Park...