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WALLAMOPPI Like the old kids' game Operation, Wallamoppi requires nimble fingers. The rules are simple: two players take turns trying to stack disks atop a tower without toppling it. The game box cleverly doubles as the timer. Before each turn, a marble is dropped into the box. When it reaches the bottom, your turn...
...chopped off his head and taken it." She fled with her husband and three children, taking along her now-orphaned infant niece. The refugees have found some sanctuary but little food, despite Katanga's innate wealth. Situated right in the center of Africa, the province sits atop giant deposits of copper, cobalt and a good portion of the world's coltan, a rare mineral used in mobile-phone circuitry. Katanga is hugely fertile - it's deep green from the air. "This country could feed all of East Africa and much of southern Africa," says Claude Jibidar, the World Food Program...
...winners of Harvard-style housing are those who need it least. They are those legions of extroverts, those processed hordes, who, told to find a group of 7 friends, dutifully did. Perched atop their social heap, no doubt nested in some extra-curricular or another, they patiently await their next...
Some high school trophies occupy a special place in the heart, a warm space cordoned off for sentimentality and success. Other prizes, an army of identical plastic men posing victoriously atop them, are predictably forgotten just days after their acquisition.Then there are those awards that carry an almost onerous importance. Their weight engraves a permanent appositive for their winner, no matter what happens to him thereafter.In the Ivy League, Lance Salsgiver—“Number one high school baseball player in the state of Michigan” (Detroit Free Press), “first-team high school...
...while we are the first to acknowledge Harvard’s problems—our decrepit curriculum, our rogue faculty, and our paltry dining hall hours—even these seemingly weighty faults cannot remove Harvard from its 370-year-old position atop academia...