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...read that jokey-sounding title correctly. That font of wisdom, American "intel," somehow gains the impression that the British prime minister, about to make an uplifting visit to the war zone, has been targeted for assassination. Therefore, a squad of American soldiers, acting on a bad tip, goes barging into the home of one Yunis Khatayer Abbas, looking for bombs, or bomb-making equipment, or anything that may incriminate him and his family in this dirty deed. All they find is a locked ammunition box that proves to contain shampoo and party decorations. What Abbas and his brothers...
Terry Aladjem, a lecturer in Social Studies whose students sometimes visit prisons to complete research, wrote in an e-mail that “it’s hard to comment on this because the process is so cryptic and idiosyncratic...
...across from Uncle Ho's bust, there is a more discreet homage: a photo-copy of a Vietnamese magazine spread featuring Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt taped to the wall next to one of the office's three wooden desks. The article features photos from the couple's November visit to Vietnam, showing them cruising the streets of Ho Chi Minh City on a motorbike. There is a display of other adoptive parents with their children from the orphanage on another wall, but it's clear that Jolie, Tam Binh's most famous adoptive parent, has made a special impression...
...million tourists who visit New York City's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree each year see a piece of arboreal splendor. What they do not see is the arduous, meticulous process of getting it there, a job largely left to New Jersey landscaper Marc Torsilieri. For 25 years Torsilieri and his team felled the Norway spruce--usually 80 ft.--plus--and prepared it for moving by hinging lower limbs and scurrying to its upper extremities to tie up delicate branches. After hauling the evergreen in a giant tractor-trailer, with a police escort, he helped decorate it with 30,000 lights...
President-elect Drew G. Faust paid a visit to the Faculty Council meeting yesterday afternoon, soliciting advice on the search for a new dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). Faust, who requested the meeting with the Faculty’s top governing body, is expected to name a new dean as one of her first acts as she prepares to move into Mass. Hall on July 1. Faust asked the 18 professors on the council for their thoughts on the search, prompting a private discussion of the qualities that they hope to see in a new dean...