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...Even the Christian quarter at the tip of Tyre's promontory that juts into the dark blue Mediterranean has emptied. The small stone Maronite and Catholic churches have closed. Families lugged heavy suitcases along the quarter's narrow alleyways to their cars, arguing about what to take and leave. Those elderly residents who refuse to leave sat on their doorsteps sipping tiny cups of coffee and glumly watching their neighbors flee. For them, and anyone else who chooses to stay, the future looks especially grim; even if they can escape the attacks, they face the prospect of being...
...bloodletting fines and prison sentence of five years." But as the razing of New York's Pennsylvania Station roused the city's citizenry to band together and forestall the destruction of other landmarks, so the Eros conviction belatedly galvanized the intellectual community. Hentoff, Ginsberg, Sloan Wilson, James Jones, I.F. Stone, Grove Press' Barney Rosset and ACLUers far and wide rose to protest the pornographer's incarceration. "These eventually succeeded in having my prison sentence reduced from five years to three," Ginzburg wrote, "and in gaining my parole after I had been locked up for eight months...
While most Harvard affiliates are taking the summer off, Katey Stone—the head coach of the women’s hockey team—is taking a new summer job. On Wednesday, USA Hockey named Stone coach of the U.S. Women’s National Under-22 Select Team. Stone will lead the country’s top players under the age of 22 through the Women’s National Festival in August, and from those hopefuls will select a roster of 20 to vie in a three-game series against the Canadian U-22 team...
...countries, potent enough to help steer the world's economy. And you're supposed to be a functioning democracy too. So when Vladimir Putin opens this year's G-8 summit next weekend at the sumptuous Palace of Congresses overlooking the sea 15 km from St. Petersburg, the famously stone-faced Russian President can be forgiven a brief flicker of a smile. The former kgb officer in East Germany will be in charge of a gathering to which, by any objective measure, he should not have been invited. Even now a small army of diplomats is buttoning up the communiqu...
...Other than the fact that adjustments take place for everyone during a transition, John will continue as a valued and senior member of our team as he has excellent relationships with all of Mass. Hall and beyond as well as with the press,” Stone wrote in an e-mail yesterday. “Exactly how our roles evolve remains to be seen...