Word: notes
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...more political note, French president Jacques Chirac was awarded the peace prize for "commemorating the 50th anniversary of Hiroshima with atomic bomb tests in the Pacific." Chirac, who was not present at the event, was congratulated by Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel in an audio message played at the ceremony...
...Ruth, provides a similar stabilizing presence, tacitly brandishing her baby-on-board girth. Yet hers is a false stability, as she keeps alive the children fantasies, dutifully breaking up scuffles between the Wild Child and Le Ballon Rouge, even as they occur in one person. Blake hits the note of maternal cajoling perfectly...
...final note, it does not appear to be any sort of inadequate performance of the OFA administrators which is responsible for the deficiency of performance space on campus. Many heads of artistic groups had nothing but praise for the efforts of OFA workers. Nevertheless, the absence of adequate performance space belies the OFA's claim to be a foundation for the arts at Harvard and Radcliffe. In the future, the OFA should concentrate its efforts on advocating for the funding of student artistic initiative within the University...
...spirit of the post-cold war times. Some Koreans wonder whether President Kim Jong Il has a firm grip on things in the North or if his military might be getting out of hand. Analysts say it's more like business as usual. Pyongyang refused to accept a protest note last week. By Seoul's count, last week's episode, while the most dramatic in recent years, was the 310th infiltration by the North in the past 25 years and the 14th since...
Tomatoes were a rare grace note in a grueling mission that was to end this week when the shuttle Atlantis returns Lucid to Earth after six long months in space. The 53-year-old shuttle veteran will have amassed 223 days in orbit since 1985, making her America's most experienced astronaut. Besting Russian cosmonaut Elena Kondakova, Lucid will also have set the women's record for consecutive days in orbit (188), after hurricanes and technical glitches delayed shuttle flights that should have picked her up almost seven weeks earlier...