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...rest of the book. Drawn in a painterly palate of grey washes, it depicts a little girl alone on a countryside hill overlooking an empty hut. O builds the lonely and distressing atmosphere through quiet panels of hanging laundry, a dog pulling desperately on its chain and an ant hauling a dead butterfly across the ground. Eventually our anxiety for the child breaks as her parents arrive - they had been spraying insecticide in the fields - and embrace her. But their talk reveals the disturbing reason for her total abandonment. The village has emptied in favor of the lure...
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...free!),” read the e-mail advertisement received by many Harvard students during the first week of October. But Hussain acknowledged that XuQa faces an uphill battle. “There is no doubt they are the 800 pound giant and we’re the little ant,” he wrote. —Staff writer Sam Teller can be reached at steller@fas.harvard.edu...
...really know: it’s a catch twenty-two. Part of Harvard’s value comes from its fame, so to bar tourists would be, in a sense, to bite the hand that feeds. At the same time, this isn’t an ant-farm, it’s a university. So someone in University Hall, please do something. Brian J. Rosenberg ’08, a Crimson editorial editor, is a History and Science concentrator in Lowell House...