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...Harvard field hockey team opened its season Friday at Cumnock Field under a wet, gray blanket of clouds. The moisture soaked through the down of the sky and fell to the ground in a lethargic drizzle...
COMING 'ROUND ONE SIDE OF THE mountains is John Hough. On New Year's Day, the 43-year-old police sergeant, a veteran of the Los Angeles riots, took in a view of California's San Bernardino Valley -- as best he could. A blanket of smog had smothered the landscape. "Look at that crappy air," he said to his wife Patricia, 32, as they drove home from a Colorado vacation. "Why are we spending the young years of our life in California when we like Colorado so much better?" In the next three months, Hough would turn in his badge...
...Says Arlen Chase: "You get this real warped view of what Maya politics and Classic society look like if you just use epigraphy. It's important, but archaeology is the only way to test it." Observes Houston: "Of course it's propaganda, but to jump from that to a blanket dismissal is preposterous...
...wood stove in the living room provides the only warmth on cold days. The seven children huddle together under a thin, frayed blanket. Sometimes they play word games, but mostly they just sit and listen to a car radio hooked up to an old battery. The most popular song of the day is "Soldier of Happiness." It goes...
...through imagination and stereotype -- is the core of Said's work, especially of Orientalism and Culture and Imperialism. But Said despises what he calls "the minority mentality" on American campuses. "My books are one long protest against it. The status of victim is not a passive blanket that you pull over yourself. You can always do something. Anyway, there's no such thing as a pure unmediated culture, any more than there's a pure unmediated self. All people, all cultures, are hybrid. I'm against essentialism. I'm against provincial nationalism. Yet people still insist on getting it wrong...