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Also at Columbia, a College Republican complains that the university denied his group's request to protest Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad scheduled speech there. Of course, Ahmadinejad never came, so it's kind of a moot issue, but a compelling opinion piece nonetheless...
...Foley's aides insist that the e-mails in question do nothing to belie his commitment to child protection issues, saying the exchanges between the congressman and the page - in which Foley asks what the boy would like for his birthday and requests a picture of him - were innocuous and "nonchalant" chat. But the boy, a page in the office of Louisiana Representative Rodney Alexander, also a Republican, e-mailed other colleagues saying Foley's messages "freaked me out," and he repeatedly called the photo request "sick...
...happens, my prejudices or insights are seconded by The Queen. Charles (played with a dense delicacy by Alex Jennings) is the one member of the family immediately and deeply stricken by the news of Diana's death. He grieves for her, as his parents first refuse his request to go to Paris to identify the body then suggest he get there not on the royal jet but by connecting commercial flights. When the others attack Diana's skills as a mother, Charles makes pointed remarks about the love she showered on her two sons, unlike his own mother...
...sign. The negotiators, who decided that his consent was sufficient, scheduled a signing ceremony for that afternoon. But de Waal insisted that a second leader, Abdel Wahid al Nur, sign the agreement as well since his was the most politically powerful rebel group. At de Waal’s request, Nur came to the signing ceremony. Noticing Nur’s “rejectionist” demeanor, de Waal says he intercepted the rebel leader. “Literally I grabbed him by the wrist and dragged him through the side door,” de Waal says, adding...
...elevated bacteria levels, although those levels were not high enough to have caused the crisis, according to a Crimson report. Dartmouth College suffered a similar epidemic the week before Harvard did, suggesting a pre-Harvard source of contagion. At the time, Dartmouth turned down Harvard’s request for further information on Dartmouth medical crisis and flaunted CDC requests to do so. The Crimson reported at the time that UHS’s resources were taxed to the limit, and students were turned away due to lack of facilities. Others were sent on a triage basis to Mount Auburn...