Word: block
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...well-acted and offered an interesting look into modern South Asian American life. Another notable act which sought to bridge the gap between the traditional and the contemporary worlds was the poetry reading by Sonali Bose '98, excerpted from the upcoming compilation Conversations with the New Race on the Block and acted out silently by cast members. Several of Bose's pieces, such as "Tobacco" and "Gunda" ("Low-life"), are reminiscent of Sandra Cisneros' short prose poems in The House on Mango Street in their attempt to give an impressionistic shape to events as perceived through the eyes...
Like other first-years, Myers is in the midst of choosing a blocking group and picking a major. He currently plans to block with men and women, and intends to concentrate in earth and planetary science...
...dangerous world--where cars explode (his own car blew up in 1994 with him in it), where business associates, friendly or otherwise, are assassinated by hired killers. A Westerner who gave a dinner for Berezovsky says his bodyguards were posted on each floor of her nine-story apartment block. Berezovsky has publicly been accused of complicity in several murders; he denies all this and claims that in murder plots, he is always the target, not the villain...
...asked that his eyes be donated to medicine, his ashes be cast into the sea and no monuments be built to him. Mao had resided in Zhongnanhai, the walled district of Beijing that is China's new Forbidden City; Deng chose to live not in Zhongnanhai but in a block-long house called Miliangku (literally "rice-grain storehouse"), not far away. It was there that China's unquestioned leader, its emperor without portfolio, enjoyed his family, played his beloved games of bridge and drifted into senescence, dealing with the specters that haunt the capital and the realm. They were ghosts...
...will be fined at least $250. To ensure compliance, the FDA has unleashed a horde of old-looking children in undercover sting operations in stores across the country. Starting August 28, the agency will also introduce a ban on vending machines in spots where underage teens are allowed, will block outdoor cigarette ads within 1,000 feet of a school or public playground and forbid the sale of "loosies" or single cigarettes. Charging that the FDA does not have the authority to regulate the industry, tobacco companies are challenging the rules in a North Carolina court