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...overseeing the auction. “The market will decide how much the property is worth.” Fine said he expects the house to sell for over $10 million dollars. Remarkable for its panoramic vista of Rhode Island Sound, the estate consists of a French neoclassical-style main residence built on five acres, a carriage house comprising 1.5 acres, and an additional acre of undeveloped land. The three parcels will be auctioned individually in a sealed bid ending Nov. 3. “There is nothing like it on the market,” Fine said...
Lambda, Harvard Law School’s main gay-rights organization, is taking a low-key approach in protesting the presence of military recruiters on its campus today...
...Lula remains the favorite to win. Assuming he retains his current level of support, he needs just one in seven of the available votes to put himself over the 50 percent mark. But that may not be as easy as it sounds. Neither of the two main defeated candidates are likely to back him. Heloisa Helena, the former PT Senator who polled 6.9%, has never forgiven Lula for throwing her out of the party for being too leftist. And Cristovam Buarque, another disillusioned former PT stalwart who polled 2.6% with a single-issue campaign focused on education, should...
Just a week ago, the main Palestinian political parties, Fatah and Hamas, were talking about forging a national unity government. Now, their supporters are fighting each other in running street battles in the West Bank and Gaza, in what may be the opening salvos in a Palestinian civil...
...nearly 40 novels and a dozen story collections, [Mahfouz] has dealt with the social and political upheavals Egypt has experienced during his lifetime. His main contribution, says Sasson Somekh, a visiting professor of Arabic literature at Princeton, is the 'creation of a new Egyptian style' that combines the narrative manner of classic texts such as The Thousand and One Nights with contemporary subject matter ... Retired in 1971 from his post as an adviser to the Minister of Culture, he spends most of his time in cafés, drinking coffee and exchanging gossip. HE IS ALSO KNOWN...