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...spent the last two weeks of August in Israel, and while some people in this country may laugh at Ahmadinejad, Israelis take very seriously his threat to wipe Israel off the map. Perhaps when people are within firing range of Iranian missiles, they develop a different point of view. Ross H. Stemer, Roswell, Georgia...
...included not girls’ but boys’ schools, such as Exeter and Belmont Hill. Among those from whom he sought advice, Drew was one of the most useful in explaining quirky customs and rituals such as “Tripe Night”—the threat of serving tripe instead of turkey at Thanksgiving dinner, the savings to be donated to the poor—and alerting him to the surprise party at dawn when the boarders departed for Christmas vacation. Instinctively, she knew that David Aloian liked to be in control, not the unwitting participant...
...Golden Age” breaks with the common convention of sequels falling short of their predecessors. Rather, it tells a whole story in itself, aging as gracefully as its subject. Leaping three decades from where the first film ended, the movie brings Spanish and Catholic threats to England’s Protestant shores in 1585. Spain’s Philip II (Jordi Mollà), Elizabeth’s counterpart, embodies the fundamentalist threat of the age and remains a lurking presence throughout, though the two leaders never meet face-to-face in the film. At home, Mary Queen of Scots...
...Fucito and sophomore Andre Akpan. Akpan leads Harvard in scoring with eight goals and six assists over the last 10 games. Fucito—who closely follows Akpan—has scored seven times and earned four assists in that same time period. Also emerging as a legitimate offensive threat is freshman Alex Chi, who has registered goals in both of the Crimson’s last two games. “We bring a lot of speed up front,” Hahn said. “That’s difficult for any team to handle...
...more blatant display of religious prejudice, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) refused to engrave a symbol of Sgt. and Mrs. Stewart’s religious faith on his tombstone, prompting Mrs. Stewart to file suit against the VA. Under threat of a looming court date, the VA finally relented last April and approved the Wiccan Pentacle as an official “emblem of belief.” Sadly, this victory came far too late, after almost a decade of petitioning by the next of kin of fallen Wiccan soldiers...