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...flesh of his leg, and he was taken north. Once in prison, he spent hours hanging upside down in the sun with his jaw held shut by a muzzle. Rats and cockroaches nibbled at the torn flesh on his leg as he spent his nights in a bare brick cell, unheated even when the temperature fell to 20 [degrees...
...trail, a red line painted on sidewalks or lain in brick throughout the city, will lead you on a three to four-hour tour to the city's most prominent historical landmarks as well as to Boston's traditionally Italian neighborhood, the North...
...there is no one to complain to in the village when something goes wrong or when we have questions. Of course I will vote for Zyuganov." Her monthly pension is 200,000 rubles (U.S.$40), and that buys almost nothing. "It's not only that," she says, pointing to brick mansions rising on the edge of the village. "That's the 'New Russians.' I can't afford to buy bricks, and they are building expensive saunas and swimming pools. Before, we had order, and we could have it again. But the only way I see it is with Zyuganov...
...winemakers in this case were Sumerians living along what is now the Iran-Iraq border at a time when agriculture and permanent human settlements were first being established. "They were clearly a pretty sophisticated people," says McGovern. "They built reasonably complex mud-brick buildings, and we have evidence that they grew barley and wheat." Now we know they also made wine, along with the jars to store it in. Wine and civilization thus seem to have been invented at roughly the same time--a fact that the French, at least, won't find at all surprising...
...essence of Harvard University lies not in the history or the walls of the institution itself, with all of the imperfections that brick is heir to, but in what William James called "the invisible Harvard," the one "in the souls of her more truth-seeking and independent and often very solitary sons...