Word: carpets
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...there's one basic difference between mainstream Hollywood movies that carpet the globe and the Asian and European films that are the Toronto fest's main fare, it's this: Hollywood movies are about (and for) guys; art films are about women. So the true stars of this year's festival were luminous presences like Gong Li, who never seemed more relaxed and human than in Sun Zhou's triangle romance Zhou Yu's Train-we note, with pleasure, her steamy sex scene with Hong Kong's Tony Leung Ka-fai-and Korea's Moon So Ri, the lead...
...feat of wartime engineering and defiance, the Ho Chi Minh Trail was actually a 16,000-kilometer network of roads, hacked by hand out of the jungles of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. It helped the communist North win the Vietnam War. U.S. forces never managed to destroy it, despite carpet bombing and the use of Agent Orange. Since the war ended, however, the trail has been largely reclaimed by jungle and myth; only a few, isolated fragments are accessible. Christopher Hunt's 1996 book Sparring with Charlie documented his trying, and mostly failing, to trace it. Indeed, we are among...
Mather’s singles would seem a lot less dingy if the carpet wasn’t fraying and vomit-stained. The folks in Currier House might not resent the long walk back to the Quad as much if they had a freshly-painted room to come home to. Even Adams could use a little renovation—in Dartboard’s room there’s only one internet jack conveniently located in Dartboard’s roommate’s bedroom. By slapping up a new coat of paint here and there, replacing cracked tiles...
Dartboard expects, however, that administrators of all stripes will balk at the costs. All Dartboard asks is that they take a little tour of Wellesley’s dorms. That adorable little school seems able to carry out major renovations in their buildings every few years; their carpet is clean, their bathroom tiles are whole and the paint on their walls isn’t peeling off. That’s funny, Dartboard doesn’t remember hearing about Wellesley’s $18 billion endowment…must not have been paying attention...
...mistake, says Mushirul Hasan, a professor of history at Delhi's Jamia Millia Islamia University. "The government should say, 'This could be the result of what happened in Gujarat.' Then people would see that they were taking a fairly decent position instead of trying to brush it under the carpet...