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...holes in the front yard were obvious rat burrows, and there were lots of them. Mills pointed out freshly dug dirt from one of them - evidence that the hole had probably been active the night before. Further confirmation: tiny droppings in the corner where the chain-link fence meets the front wall of the house. "I've been trying to get into that house for the past three to four months," Mills says of the boarded-up building...
...world-class faculty, a student body from every corner of the globe, and access to the largest private library collection on the planet was good. But it was not good enough for Katherine L. Peisker ’09. After spending her first two years inside Harvard’s ivy-clad gates, Peisker decided to look beyond the Yard to broaden her education. Bidding farewell to her blockmates in Leverett House, Peisker took off on a year-long journey, spending the first half of her junior year living in Moscow and the second studying in a Ukrainian Greek Catholic...
...into the net.” Harvard came into the second period firing, netting a goal at 2:21 on a power play. Assisted by sophomore Liza Ryabkina and Vaillancourt, Buesser earned the goal that put Harvard ahead. “There was kind of a scrum in the corner, a battle, and then I picked up the puck and passed it to Liza at the point. Liza took a shot from the blue line, and then Kate Buesser just took the rebound and put it in,” Vaillancourt explained. But Harvard lost its advantage just minutes later...
...would be hard-pressed to find anything more explicitly religious than the use of the language of proselytism itself, exemplified by a page on Dawkins’ website, titled “Converts Corner.” Granted, if one were to ignore the comically narcissistic objective of this blog, whose sole purpose is to allow proselytes to stroke Dawkins’ capacious ego by recounting how his book “converted” them from their religious faith, one could defend such efforts by pointing to their foundation in logic rather than faith. But this contention would only...
...Generation" [Nov. 24] are in turn often bringing up a generation of motherless kids in rich countries - kids whose mothers return to work before their children are of school-going age; kids who spend long days with Filipina nannies as "surrogate mothers." Few children - rich or poor, in whichever corner of the globe - prefer gifts and toys to the presence of their mothers. In both cases, the mothers' drive to provide for their offspring financially seems to avoid the simplest of facts: parenting cannot be outsourced. Juliet Linley, Rome...