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Some have gone even further. Before the meeting of the European Council in Ghent, Britain?s Tony Blair, Germany?s Gerhard Schröder and France?s Jacques Chirac took advantage of the summit?s medieval venue, St. Peter?s Abbey, to hold a brief gathering of their own. This side meeting was held at Chirac?s initiative, and, not incidentally, it was consistent with his efforts to appear vigorous and statesmanlike in the run-up to next year?s French presidential elections. The "big three" were getting together as E.U. countries that have promised - and in the case...
Yesterday, when Lowell House resident tutor James von der Heydt received the e-mail, he did not even open the attachment. He knew it was a virus—one he had already received twice before...
...stereotype of a bread-winning father, stay-at-home mother and 2.4 children in a one-family dwelling, garage attached. Divorce is one factor contributing to the reconfiguring of the traditional family structure. It's on the rise, and if the four-times-married German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder is any kind of barometer, divorce doesn't carry the social stigma it once did. Add to that the exploding number of single mothers, some of whom have never married and have no plans to; couples who decide to have smaller families than their parents did, or no children...
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...some higher form of public speaking. "With a vocal instrument of abnormal resonance and flexibility," writes Houseman in his autobiography "Run-Through," which is largely a memoir of the Mercury days, "he was capable of expressing an almost unlimited range of moods and emotions." (When, I won-der, did young Orson?s voice change? And was that the moment when he knew he?d be an actor?) Welles on radio was Homer or Aesop at a campfire, weaving worlds with words. "Everybody likes a good story," he said when "Campbell Playhouse" began, "and I think radio is just about...