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This ending is so completely unbelievable, so shamelessly ridiculous, that you and your friends will see what a sham romantic optimism really is. Afterwards, watch Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs and you’ll see quite clearly how conventional heterosexual relationships descend into shocking violence and degradation anyway. Then tell Magda how you really feel about...
...they are right: the dinner is exceptional not only because of the HUDS effort, but simply because faculty members are normally absent from our dining halls. Apart from the advising nights when representatives of each concentration descend upon dining halls to promote their fields, there rarely is reason to see a faculty member eat with students. It would be fascinating to discover how much professors who more recently arrived at Harvard know about the Houses: do they know their locations? Do they know that Dunster is not just a street, and Eliot not just a former University president...
CFD’s Deputy Chief John Gelinas told the Associated Press that fire fighters faced “zero visibility” and that they had to use ropes to descend into the underground site...
Emblems of individuality in life, those distinguishing characteristics have become crucial clues in determining whether loved ones missing since the waves hit are among the dead. Across Asia, massive numbers of bodies remain unidentified. So while relief agencies descend on the disaster areas to rush aid to survivors, forensic investigators from around the globe are sifting through the deceased, doing the grim work that follows every human catastrophe. In Thailand experts have begun a disaster-victim-identification (DVI) operation of unprecedented scale and complexity, involving more than 300 investigators from 30 countries--many of whom have worked together...
...means not a stable but simply a feeding trough or at best a stall. Either word would be consistent with the kind of rural poverty that has inspired poor people and their champions throughout the history of Christianity. Today's crche scenes, even the more elaborate ones, actually descend from an attempt by the 13th century ascetic genius St. Francis of Assisi to recapture this humble ideal. Put off by the jewel-encrusted and gilt-covered re-creations in the noble courts of his time, he borrowed some real farm animals and real straw and convened his midnight Mass...