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Within weeks, thousands of undergraduates will encounter similarly barren suites. But seeing the sparsely furnished dormitory room for the first time heralded the return of a lifestyle Romano L. Mazzoli has not known for half a century...
...vacationers shuttered, flanked only by the occasional uniformed soldier and his strapped carbine. The children who normally would have swarmed the beaches to greet the Senegalese presidential yacht, were kept well out of sight, behind ubiquitous metal cordons. To brighten their penning they draped the bars of the barren blockades with intensely colored local tapestries and played soccer in the dirt courtyard while they waited...
Divided and uncertain, most chose to discuss little and protest less. As a Crimson poll revealed this spring, Harvard students were twice as likely to oppose war as the American public, but as millions across the globe united in demonstrations on Feb. 15, the Yard lay cold and barren. The Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice organized the only three campus protests that drew triple-digit student attendance, two of which were launched within a week of the invasion. No chants echoed in the Yard between October—when Congress granted Bush the full power to make war?...
...India. But borders here have always been vague, making the Sikkimese a loose mix of Himalayan peoples and of forest-dwelling Lepcha, the area's earliest inhabitants. Unlike other parts of the Himalayas, few in Sikkim make their homes in the inhospitable mountains. Tending yaks and planting rice on barren slopes is a morale-draining drag, and those tough enough to do it are seldom asked for papers. Sheer survival is their passport...
...Press Barren You've heard the old song about the pub with no beer? Well, how about the press club with no hacks? The new Foreign Correspondents Club in Siem Reap, tel: (855-63) 760283, is minimally elegant, fronts a leafy reach of the river, does a mean wood-fired pizza and boasts the coldest gin-and-tonics in town. But, admits manager Benoit Jancloes a trifle sheepishly, it currently doesn't have any actual newshounds among its members. "We're mainly for tourists," he says. Discounts for members of its venerable sibling in Phnom Penh, however, are sure...