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Early Wednesday morning, Harvard officer Joseph Crowley saw Warner "in possession of a green landscaping stake and was swinging it from side to side as pedestrians walk by," according to Harvard Police Chief Francis D. "Bud" Riley...
...papers refuse to buy the film, Wills is relatively free. Similarly, Eton has promised to expel any student who speaks to the press. In fact, a couple of inside-Eton manuscripts have been shopped in London, but none has been sold. It's a fragile situation. The photographers who stake out the school are hoping that something so "big" will happen that it is automatically of public interest. Not a good state of affairs for an adolescent...
...entomologists Stephen Buchmann and Gary Paul Nabhan term it in a new book, The Forgotten Pollinators (Island Press/Shearwater Books; $25), is not just of concern to beekeepers and rainforest activists. It is, they write, a way to "inform us about how the world works and what is at stake if we simply ignore the needs of pollinators...
...started with a traditional barbecue in Arlington, Virginia, right across the river from downtown D.C. While some of our crowd of about 15 took the Metro to the Mall to stake out a spot for our picnic blankets, the rest of us went to Adams Morgan to drop off a car at someone's house. We didn't realize the walk back to the Capitol was a good 40 blocks, and we were pretty tired by the time we fought our way through the crowds on the Mall...
...highly charged that it is hard to keep up with. Indeed, during this political upheaval it takes discipline to keep one's attention on the serious business of state that must continue. The entertaining theatrics of presidential politics notwithstanding, however, the voters should realize that there is more at stake than a contest between two individuals, the fate of a whole nation is tied to the fate of the victor...