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We’re perched on stools in a little nook to the side of the main auditorium in the basement of the Carpenter Center, having just watched four films as part of a Harvard Film Archive series entitled “Adventures in Surrealism,” and I’m desperately looking for a reference to support my assertion—that many people who’ve never really learned about surrealism are still familiar with aspects of it that have been copied or parodied or popularized somehow...
...Monday run-in with problematic plumbing swiftly flushed away all hope of an uncomplicated week for several Eliot House residents. Three entryways—D, E, and F—along with parts of the basement, were flooded when a major backup in the pipes underneath the House caused water to come up through shower drains. Caroline Silva ’08 said a liquid appearing to be clear water began rising from her drain at about 8 a.m., but “as [the liquid] kept coming out it got murky and brown colored.” She said...
...interrogators ordered him to strip to his underpants and gave him a brown dishdasha, the traditional Arabic robe, which he wore for the rest of his captivity. He was then taken down two more flights of stairs to a basement holding area that was partitioned with plywood into many small cells--at least 10, possibly more. His home for the next five weeks would be a dirty cell, 5 ft. by 4 ft., with a rough concrete floor. The plywood walls were unpainted and still bore the manufacturer's stamp in a foreign script he speculates was Korean. The walls...
Many kidnapping victims are held captive in remote farmhouses in the countryside. But after a few days in the basement prison, Waddah came to believe he was in an urban environment. Although there were no windows, he could hear city traffic and, when the power went out, the sound of several generators starting up. The bread served was often warm and fresh, indicating there was a baker nearby. If his captors had neighbors, they were probably complicit in the kidnappings; they obviously didn't report the sound of gunshots within the house to the police. During one interrogation, Waddah...
Waddah soon found himself the longest-held captive in the basement, and the guards grew friendly. They helped him get a sense of the scale of the kidnapping operation. By his reckoning, at least 30 captives passed through the cells during his five-week stay. The guards hinted that at least two captives had been government employees. Instead of being ransomed, they were sold to a jihadist group. And the jihadis took a cut from the ransom collections in exchange for protection. The U.S. official says that is common practice among kidnappers: "We know that the kidnapping industry helps finance...