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...crack open that housing envelope and read the words "Lowell House." It guarantees that for three years, whenever you show a stranger around campus, they'll ask with incredulity, "You LIVE here?" And that's worth something. When you walk in that front gate and breathe the cool Lowell courtyard air, you'll know you're home...
...arrived to find thousands of Congolese soldiers looting. Lines of men were carrying food, radios and clothes away. The army allows wives and children to accompany the men, and in the town of Karimba the soldiers slumped in the street, counting out their plunder with their families. In a courtyard off the main street lay the burned corpse of a young man. A second charred body lay outside, this one disemboweled, his yellow guts spilling across his navel. At the deserted town hospital, three soldiers sat unhappily with weak, malarial babies in their laps. The soldiers said they hadn...
About 70 members of the Harvard community gathered last night in a snowy Hillel courtyard for a candlelight vigil mourning the loss of life in the Gaza Strip and Israel since serious conflict began in the region almost two weeks...
...gathering took place, is symbolic of Iraq's importance: it is enormous. It is also a testament to the continued fragility of the country Washington seeks to build an alliance with. The structure is heavily fortified. From the outside, it resembles an austere, sand-colored fortress. From the inner courtyard, small symmetrical windows are covered by heavy screens that shelter the buildings from incoming rockets and mortars. One U.S. soldier said it reminded her of a maximum-security prison. "If my parents could see this, they wouldn't be so worried," said another...
...Dongguan, it already has. On the evening of Nov. 25, another large toy factory here, Kai Da Manufacturing, laid off more than 600 of its workers because of slowing production. According to participants and eyewitnesses to what followed, a large group of the workers gathered in the front courtyard of the factory demanding to know what compensation they would receive. At first, a company manager told them that anyone with a good work record and less than five years' service would receive less than 10,000 RMB - less than $1,500 at today's exchange rates. Anyone with a good...