The school’s president holds meetings with grads upset over handling of the child abuse allegations.
2012
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Key reformist won’t run in Egypt
Mohamed ElBaradei says his participation would lend legitimacy to the military’s undemocratic election.
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World Dispatches
LAGOS, Nigeria Unions, government make last-ditch effort to halt strike Nigeria’s government is meeting with labor unions in a last bid to halt a paralyzing national strike that now threatens oil production in Africa’s most populous nation. A major union has said it will stop production in Nigeria if the government doesn’t restore fuel subsidies […]
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Bomb targeting Shiites kills 53 pilgrims in Iraq
ZUBAIR, Iraq – A bomb tore through a procession of Shiite pilgrims heading toward a largely Sunni town in southern Iraq on Saturday, killing at least 53 people in the latest sign of a power struggle between rival Muslim sects that has escalated since the American military withdrawal. Fears of more bloodshed have risen, with […]
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Author Q&A: The lady vanishes
Set in Maine, Morgan Callan Rogers’ debut novel is about a mother’s disappearance and the effect it has on the daughter left behind.
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Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry
Jay Davis’ offbeat poem honors potatoes and immigrants at the same time.
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Art Review: Strength and diversity put Flat Iron on the map
In my roundup of 2011, I mentioned Portland’s Flat Iron Gallery as one of my favorite new art venues in Maine. It’s a handsome and interesting space that showcases the work of some good local artists. That so many of the artists are familiar to the Portland arts community, combined with the fact that owner […]
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Profiles in courage
Stories of heroism from the front lines of the civil rights movement are told in ‘Warriors Don’t Cry,’ a theatrical homage to the history-making Little Rock Nine.
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PMA show features actor and artist portraits
The Portland Museum of Art showcases its collection of celebrity portraits in the exhibition ‘Making Faces: Photographic Portraits of Actors and Artists.’