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When Dartboard first arrived at Harvard last September from the backward, sparsely populated hills in the North, he discovered a whole new face of humanity for which material goods were as essential as, if not more so than, nature’s gifts of sunshine and trees. Dartboard was singled out for his lack of a cellular telephone almost immediately and did not fully benefit from the precious carefree days of Freshman Week, most of which were spent exchanging phone numbers and storing them in the devices’ mighty memory chips...
When Ashima visits their apartment once, to take care of Amber and Clover, and winds up sitting on Alan and Judy’s mattress, she “[cries] out, falling clumsily backward, startled to discover that it was filled with water...
...Seoul's Hanyang University. Says Hide Saida, director of international marketing in Asia for Sony Music: "We've been waiting for this for a long time." Sony estimates that revenues in Asia for the Japanese music industry could rise by 40%, or nearly $40 million. Probable losers: Korea's backward erotic-film industry, which may not be able to match Japan's exotic blue videos. South Koreans are about to taste all sorts of formerly forbidden fruits...
Unfortunately for Harvard, that did not quite happen. Leading scorer Klein moved backward in the second round, firing a seven-over 78. He finished with a total weekend score of nine over...
Increasingly, commentators, members of Congress and policymakers, including a minority within the Bush Administration, are questioning the closeness of the U.S.'s relationship with this backward, authoritarian, fundamentalist state. Maybe the 600 families that lost loved ones in 9/11 and are holding the House of Saud accountable in a $1 trillion lawsuit have a point. This July a bill to add Saudi Arabia to the U.S. list of states that sponsor terrorism garnered 191 votes in the House before going down. Some critics of Saudi Arabia are even suggesting that the U.S. invaded the wrong country and seized the wrong...