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...keep with the theme of personal narrative, most of the students base their paintings on personal photos. The class was even provided with disposable cameras during their first week to help them come up with topics. But recreating these photos is not the intent of the class; as Kim says, their photos are simply “a sounding board...
...Georgetown?” The gift agreement was finalized in November, said Donella Rapier, Harvard’s vice president for alumni affairs and development. “I believe they were attracted to Harvard because of our considerable strengths in this area, which provides a very strong base to build upon,” she said. Alwaleed said he visited Harvard when he was deciding where to complete his masters degree, but chose Syracuse because they allowed him to fulfill his requirements from Saudi Arabia...
...current national assembly, came despite clashes between Brotherhood supporters and government police who tried to prevent them from voting. The violence left 12 dead and hundreds injured. And the election raised the possibility that the Brotherhood, which ran a media-savvy campaign that appealed to its fundamentalist base as well as to Egyptians fed up with one-party rule, could eventually take power through the ballot box in the Arab world's most populous country. "We are in a transition period in the history of Egypt," el-Erian says. "We are the real representatives of the country...
...filibuster this week. These sources say that with a handful of conservative Republicans--including New Hampshire's John Sununu and Idaho's Larry Craig--opposing the bill, Democrats are willing to risk looking weak on national security in the hopes of delivering a win that could help mobilize their base in 2006. Meanwhile, G.O.P. strategists think they will benefit from what they say is yet another political blunder by the party that resisted creating the Homeland Security department before the 2002 elections. Said Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman: "It seems amazing Democrats would go down this road again...
...however, the Arsenal had become outdated. The U.S. Base Realignment and Closure Commission recommended that it be closed, and the Department of Defense began a systematic reduction in the Arsenal’s activities. The challenge for Watertown, however, had just begun...