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...foreigners and high party and government officials. I could understand her hating such preferential treatment, but then again, she and her colleagues do pretty well because of it. For notwithstanding my status as a foreigner, the "soft sleeper" car was "sold out" until a kind official laid a carton of cigarettes and a small cash "bonus" on the ticket agent. "Funny to you, isn't it?" said the official. "Here I am from one bureau of the government, and I have to help you pay off another bureau to get what the regulations say is yours by right...
...trying to restore order, local police and National Guardsmen ; apparently joined in, carting off garbage bags full of booty. British tourist Simon Schiller said he watched while a St. Croix policeman drove straight through the center of the violence in Christiansted with a brand-new refrigerator, still in its carton, in the back of his truck. To add to the chaos, when the hurricane buffeted a local prison, 200 inmates escaped and joined the free...
Arriving at work one day, a Wasp lawyer for Washington's Smithsonian Institution finds a carton on her desk. She is stunned. Inside the box are some clumps of dirt and a note proposing that the contents -- the remains of her grandparents, freshly dug up from a New England cemetery -- be put on display by the museum. The sender is a part-Navajo conservator at the institution, furious that such a fate has befallen the bones of his ancestors...
Some houses have cartons of chocolate milk available on request, but it feels as though our once-respected freedom of choice has been restricted, and it is probably only a matter of time before even this option is a thing of the past. This is why it sounds as hollow as an empty milk carton when Richard Eisert '88, the former Undergraduate Council Chairman primarily responsible for chocolate milk, says "chocolate milk is still alive and well at Harvard despite its absence from the machines. I think the legacy of our council is intact." The response of the current chairman...
...bottom of bogs and burned for heat and in cooking. The Irish Turf Board said last week that sometime this fall it aims to start selling briquettes of the material -- packed in shamrock-adorned cardboard boxes containing twelve lbs. each -- in U.S. supermarkets. Ireland's peat harvesters hope the carton of sod will be a popular souvenir item among the 44 million Americans of Irish descent. John Foley, the Turf Board's marketing manager, envisions Americans burning peat on Christmas and St. Patrick's Day. Says he: "There is a market in the U.S., but not as an everyday product...