Word: camels
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Finding itself once again in the friendly confines of Blodgett Pool, the Harvard men’s water polo team fired on all cylinders en route to a 14-4 victory over visiting Connecticut College. The Crimson (10-8) launched an audacious aquatic assault on the unsuspecting Camels, as nine different Harvard men found themselves on the scoreboard, including freshman David Roncarolo de Vries, who recorded the first goal of his collegiate career. Harvard cruised to a blistering pace in the first quarter, shutting out its opponents and taking an early 6-0 advantage. Junior netminder Jay Connolly, who recorded...
...perhaps because Affleck took a long time to make a serious movie after Good Will Hunting (while he was saving the world, co-star Matt Damon made The Talented Mr. Ripley), people pegged him as an action star, not a thinker. And when he went gallivanting around in camel-hair coats and Bentleys and had news of his engagement broken on Primetime Live, people figured he was full of himself. It takes only a tiny shift in perception before everything a person does can be misconstrued. Just like that, the assets Affleck had relied on became liabilities. His spirited antics...
...only exacerbates the poverty everyone is trying to fight, and that in the process, Mongolian traditions are being lost - a sensitive subject in the semi-autonomous province where ethnic Mongolians were attacked during the Cultural Revolution. "Before, maybe herders raised goats; now they raise cattle. Or maybe they raised camel; now they're farming," says Yun Jin Feng, a professor at Inner Mongolia Agricultural University who has been studying local grasslands for 50 years. Scientists agree that Beijing's attention to the issue has helped the land, but working with herders to find a way to adapt to their changing...
...those accustomed to the typical North African couscous of Paris (moist yellow semolina granules doused with spicy stew - fast, cheap and filling), Wally's $55 Tuareg banquet is a camel of a different color. Diners have one choice: red wine or white. The set menu is a cavalcade of flavors so perfectly balanced that it hasn't changed in 30 years. First is chorba, a spicy tomato soup rich enough to restore life even after a day fighting the hordes at Versailles. A refined pastilla, a sweet-savory pigeon pastry dusted with cinnamon and sugar, floods the senses with visions...
...Tribe Worships Camel Doodoo...