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Although he is 85, Khomeini still regularly receives visitors at his modest but heavily guarded villa in the capital's northern suburbs. Even dignitaries must follow the procedure of removing shoes and sitting cross-legged in his presence. And while the twelve-man guardian council is constitutionally the state's...
Murnau, one of the greatest silent-film directors, went to Tahiti (with documentary pioneer Robert Flaherty) to make this ethnographic idyll spiked with Hollywood-style melodrama. A boy who has fallen in love with a local princess dives for pearls in a deep-sea grotto that is guarded by a...
Has the nuclear industry absorbed the lessons of 9/11 and made sufficient adjustments to the way plants are guarded? The DOE, which controls the 11 sites that house nuclear weapons and the materials used to build them, has significantly improved its standards. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), which oversees 103...
Back on campus, conservative-leaning faculty members viewed Summers’ 2001 appointment as University president with guarded optimism. “Almost anyone would have been better than [Summers’ predecessor Neil L.] Rudenstine,” says Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, the Kenan professor...
Despite the weight of tradition, the first-year experience—one of the longest and most closely guarded rites of College passage—is on the brink of change.