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...that has really galvanized the village. When little Zarghunah woke shortly after midnight on May 24, the roars of choppers and their machine guns frightened her. The six-year-old ran from the outdoor platform where her family was sleeping on the warm summer night. Zarghunah, still half-asleep, stumbled across the uneven ground of the family compound, forgetting about the open well. Her father found her later, nearly 12 meters down the shaft, her body broken, wet and lifeless. Zarghunah loved red dresses and a grown farm dog she called Puppy. "She was the laughter of our house," says...
...Latin Salutatory, delivered by Leah J. Whittington ’01, spoke of the search for truth. Her fanciful account of falling asleep in Widener Library and meeting Socrates in a dream elicited laughs from the graduates who could follow along in Latin or the English translation inserted in the Commencement Day program...
With the music industry asleep at the wheel, Shawn Fanning, a first-year at Northeastern, drew up a bit of technology history of his own. While plodding through his first-year classes, the young Cape Cod native was programming a little ditty called Napster, an application that promised to make MP3 distribution easy and fast. Turns out he was way ahead of more than just the rich executives at Warner and BMG. While students eagerly traded the latest Britney songs, Harvard’s Internet connection started feeling the weight of a whole new breed of traffic. Students weren?...
...Dirty Stories" series is that women participate in it. For years I have wondered what became of Carol Swain, an English artist who did amusing, odd-ball stories in a soft pencil style. Suddenly here she is with "Silicon Valley Rest Home," where impotent, elderly ex-porn stars fall asleep in front of TVs that show tapes of their younger selves. Likewise it takes a woman, Ellen Forney, to include a sexy and educational instructional on how to best use your fingers "for her pleasure." The other non-fiction standout, "My, My American Bukkake," by Susannah Breslin, goes behind...
...advertisements sound too good to be true--3,000, 5,000, even 9,000 minutes absolutely free! Don't be fooled. Free minutes are of no use if you're asleep when they kick in. Before you sign anything, you need to look behind the numbers and find out what they really mean...