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...past eight months a series of curious incidents have shaken the newly named Kingdom of Mekamui, and at their heart is the conman Musingku, thought to be the power behind the jungle throne. Bougainville-born, he fled P.N.G. in 2002 after the collapse of u-vistract, a pyramid scheme that swallowed millions of kina of P.N.G. residents' savings. Musingku surfaced later that year in Solomon Islands, involved in a scheme to bail the islands out of bankruptcy, but when his role became public he fled again - this time into Ona's no-go zone...
...characteristic Friday evening at Symphony Hall, a curious phenomenon occurs. Ten minutes before the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) strikes its first note, a predominantly white-haired throng of season subscribers makes its way through the ornate doors of the hall, down the lighted aisles and fills the seats of the auditorium. Moments later, moving virtually unnoticed, a small number of unbefitting young people shuffle through the mobs of veteran classical music connoisseurs, finding their seats in the shadows of the older crowd...
When the management company renovated its trading floor in 1998, Meyer sought to construct a room which would appear “light and cheerful but not opulent,” a curious distinction for the home of one of the richest endowments in the country...
...killing squads swoop down into villages andravage them.” He suggests, albeit without evidence, that both the Sudanese andthe Americans fight “merely to avenge past wrongs and to impose an arbitraryvision of order beholden only to themselves.” That is an assertion curious in itself, but that is not even the biggest problem. The sine qua non of genocide—the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a certain group—Gulay omits...
...institution” and is complete with typical clichéd student characters like, as Pepi says, “the ambitious Upper East side” socialite, “the European girl,” whom Pepi herself plays the role of in the show, the bi-curious “Lacrosse guy” and the classic “freshman couple in love.” The show is based on “how we [students] see things here at Harvard,” says Pepi, who also admits that the writers tend...