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...Packer are undeniably different, but if you can see past the strangeness, you will see some remarkable things. Drop by Mr. Rush's senior art-history class some morning. Rush--a dapper, manic teacher who claims he understands absolutely nothing about wireless technology--leads his students through a brisk review before an exam, pulling images of Greek urns off the Metropolitan Museum of Art's website. He makes extensive use of what's called a Smart Board, a high-tech blackboard that throws a giant version of Rush's laptop screen on the wall. It's touch-sensitive...
...areas of the country, isolated for years by a government-imposed embargo. Before the peace process began, Wickremesinghe says, "we were a market of 15 million. Now we are a market of 19 million." In Dambulla, a trading town in the center of Sri Lanka, vegetable sellers now do brisk business with Jaffna, the chief city in the Tamil north: these days, large onions and pineapples are sent up north, while trucks carry small red onions, bananas and beetroots south. Cheap agricultural produce from the north is one reason why inflation has dropped to barely 7% from more than...
...entire first floor to sweatshirts, visors and Nalgene bottles to vend to the Harvard faithful. In cities worldwide, Harvard clubs have healthy membership lists. And our loyalties to our Houses run as deep. With the willful blindness of zealotry, Quadlings defend their Garden Street gulag; House Committees do brisk trade in crest-emblazoned beer steins and shot glasses; in the spring, upperclassmen, one of whom will be dressed as a leveret, will gather outside Annenberg and—shouting, waving posters and distributing t-shirts—welcome first-years into the Houses they’ve just been assigned...
...Josh is brisk and businesslike, a Crimson editor who spent his Friday nights in college studying at the library, while Ryan, a product of the final club circuit, is pigeonholed as a privileged party boy, tripping over his loafers as he attempts to match Josh’s pace in the West Wing’s halls...
...could I have forgotten what it means to fly to Israel? Three hours before boarding, the security entourage arrives and transforms the terminal. They push the line into a jumble so they can set up barrier ropes and stations for questioning every passenger. Even as their movements are brisk and authoritative, the Israelis waiting get more raucous. They start fighting loudly over who was there first...