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...steering wheel while his other shoved a stack of local currency, the som, into my face. He insistently urged me to trade the money for dollars. After checking in at the grim Hotel Uzbekistan, a nattily clad porter showed me and my wife to a room, fiddled with a broken TV set, and then reached into his jacket pockets for large bricks of som. He, too, persistently begged me for greenbacks. In Uzbekistan, the dollar ruled...
...than fourth in all 10 races, winning their final race and taking second place four times and third place twice.“They had to deal with some really tricky conditions this weekend,” sophomore captain Alan Palmer said. “Some teams suffered from broken boats, it was so windy. It was great for Brendan to get some experience in these challenging conditions.”In the B division, sophomore skipper Colin Santangelo teamed up with freshman crew William White to place 10th. The Terriers from Boston University won the overall team title...
...Teams of three students are chosen to represent their schools each year, but students can also participate individually. Boreico and Alex Zhai ’12 were among the top 16 ranking individuals, each winning a prize of $1,000. “My laptop’s broken,” said Boreico. “I’ll spend the money on a new one.” Abel placed among the next nine highest ranking individuals in the competition. Kevin Carde ’09, Zhou Fan ’09, Rosen D. Kralev...
...Nishis gather as we prepare our vessels at the water's edge. "Is it elephant skin?" asks a boy, poking our raft. A Nishi unsheathes his sword from a monkey-fur scabbard, and waves it over his head, dancing. In broken Hindi, he calls out: "Hey! Next time, you bring me a foreign woman!" The Nishi has been impressed by the posters of Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera in a tea shop up on the road, and believes they may be worth a few wild cattle in trade. As we head into the current, a few younger Nishi gather...
...poverty, broken government promises and feelings of marginalization took hold of the Sunni community, all al-Qaeda and its allies had to do was wait. "The coalition and the Iraqi government told the people that the reason for their poverty was the insurgents. But when the people became Sahwa, their poverty was not alleviated," the insurgent source says. "They realized that their poverty was due to the Americans and the government. That's what's happening in western Baghdad...