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...background. An old mural shows a young Saddam smiling; next to it a photo mural depicts an older, grimmer leader. There is nothing to eat here at the cafe except some custard puddings and a pile of Turkish delight. Holes near the roof line are filled in with little cardboard squares. The windows are half covered in tattered plastic. The men say they are resigned to more bombs destroying their city. "I cannot change it," says a 65-year-old backgammon player as his friends nod agreement, "so I do not worry. I will just defend myself and my country...
...asked who the president of Radcliffe is, Livelli asserted that it is definitely "Linda somebody." Livelli was able to name the president of Harvard, however, but when asked about President Rudenstine, Livelli pondered, "Does Neil exist? I saw him once, but I thought that it might have been a cardboard cutout...
...battered Royal typewriters; editors fine-tuned the typescript with ball-point pens; down in the shop, typesetters retyped the copy to produce spools of paper punch-tape; those tapes were fed to Compugraphic, which in turn produced printed galleys that were dried, coated with wax, and pasted up on cardboard "flats" for proofing...
First the council recommended that HUPD distribute laminated cards with safety information to every undergraduate rather than the current cardboard cards...
Against the nurses' orders I bring her vanilla ice cream from time to time in a small cardboard cup, and I feed her with a flat wooden spoon. She takes her regular food through a tube in her stomach, so the taste of the sweet, cold substance makes her salivate and smile. She will exclaim, "This is delicious!" after every taste, with exactly the same intonation, as if she feared that if she used any other formula to express her appreciation, I would not reward her with another spoonful...