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...only way you can really know what the elephant is like is if you look at the whole elephant,” she says. “What we had until recently was just a list of the parts. But a list of the parts is just the bare minimum for what you need...
...think I know a few of these, but not through my Core classes,” Shevchik says after reading the questions. Cieslikiewicz wonders if FM would let him pose nude for a photo accompanying this quiz. But this isn’t about laying bare student bodies, but rather exposing the body of knowledge one accumulates (or doesn’t) after four years of the Core. Here’s how they...
...once the government buildings had been stripped, the more insatiable looters sought out any target of opportunity. The National Museum was stripped of tens of thousands of artifacts from the cradle of civilization. Hospitals, colleges, markets, deserted air-conditioning factories were overrun by frantic thieves who cleaned them bare and then set them on fire. By night, there were more plumes of black smoke rising over Baghdad than at any time during the war. "We asked the Americans to stop this," said Mohammed, a former civil servant, "but they say they have no orders to do so. Saddam...
...Assuming their experience was like that of their other clients, the Dignitas staff then took the Stokes to see founder Ludwig Minelli, to verify their wish to die. A doctor who had reviewed their records prescribed a toxic dose of barbiturates, and the couple was taken to a bare apartment in Zurich. They likely lay down upon two single beds, ate some Swiss chocolate to help them swallow a bitter anti-vomiting medication, and then drank the barbiturate cocktail. Within minutes, they drifted into a coma, then died. The couple had already arranged for a double coffin. Since the couple...
...Breathe”—the vignette which capped the evening—was choreographed by Jodi Leigh Allen and set to a Cantata Mundi by Karl Jenkins. The stage floor was laid bare for this performance and the lights focused in on the dancers. The piece was the largest of the compilation with ten dancers dressed in minimal tarzan-like costume. Elements of the wild were revealed elsewhere in the dancing, particularly when the dancers were grouped close to each other and moved in unison in an almost mob-like fashion. Elemental in its simplicity...