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...ground on the slopes of Dugen mountain, barely inside the Turkish border with Iraq and near the town of Uludere. Crying softly, a young woman approached through heavy rain, opened a blanket held close to her chest and handed the body of an infant swathed in a burial cloth to a man in a large turban. He laid the small body in a hole already filling with water; he and others shoveled in earth. The men crouched and, as one prayed aloud, murmured after him in low voices. Their faces, and those of the women of the mother's family...
...overt rejection of the principles of free enterprise upon which Harvard's endowment is built and a denial of the rights of freedom of expression upon which Harvard's liberal reputation is built. Our product line has considerable more character than a Fred Flintstone in a Harvard loin cloth as depicted in Forbes magazine, October 29 1990 on page 126. Mark R. Lane Coed Sportswear, Third...
These are the humble makings of a revolution in progress: Macaroni and cheese. Timex watches. Volunteer work. Insulated underwear. Savings accounts. Roseanne. Domestic beer. Local activism. Sleds. Pajamas. Sentimental movies. Primary colors. Mixed-breed dogs. Bicycles. Cloth diapers. Shopping at Wal- Mart. Small-town ways. Iceberg lettuce. Family reunions. Board games. Hang- it-yourself wallpaper. Push-it-yourself lawn mowers. Silly Putty...
They surrendered all along what was supposed to be the mighty "Saddam line," in squads, then platoons. Many waved tattered pieces of white cloth. Some held aloft the Koran...
...older American moviegoers, the archetypal Frenchman was a suave seducer: Maurice Chevalier, Charles Boyer, Louis Jourdan. But French audiences preferred men of the earth -- Raimu, Jean Gabin, Jean-Paul Belmondo -- to men of the world. Depardieu, 42, is cut from this rough cloth. This versatile actor can play comical, tragical and historical, as well as pastoral, but his most famous roles are as peasants: the duped Jean de Florette, the mysterious Martin Guerre, the noble Olmo in Bertolucci's 1900. He has assayed the holy fools of French history and literature: Danton, Tartuffe and, in a recent triumph playing...