Word: deserter
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...will be difficult in this way and difficult in that way. Every book has a different process. You think this person is going to get up and cross the room. That’s what I intend but sometimes, the room might be as long as the Sahara desert. 2. FM: As the Creative Writing thesis deadline approaches, what do you look for in a budding novelist?JK: I’m not really looking for anything. The ones who have been novelists who have succeeded had it in themselves. I was just the spatula. I don?...
...experiment with ways to imbibe. In the meantime, I developed a debilitating online shopping addiction. But what deepened my drinking despair was the discovery of another problem: although my body violently resisted alcohol’s advances, my mind, speech, and motor skills were all too happy to desert me at the slightest whiff of the poison. My DAPA Nalgene tells me that 78 percent of Harvard students count how many drinks they have, but it’s much harder to keep track when all it takes to go from being flushed and tipsy to flaming and totaled...
...just across the border. They also can't go after the drug trade that funds the insurgency, in part because some of the proceeds are also skimmed by the friends, officials and perhaps family members of the stupendously corrupt government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Helmand province is mostly desert, but it produces half the world's opium supply along a narrow strip of irrigated land that straddles the Helmand River. The drug trade - Afghanistan provides more than 90% of the world's opium - permeates everything. A former governor, Sher Mohammed Akhundzada, was caught with nine tons of opium, enough...
After four years spent making the short walk between Eliot House and Harvard Yard each morning, Cristiana Strava ’09 will spend her next year trekking across the Sahara Desert with a semi-nomadic tribe in Morocco. Strava is one of the six seniors who received the Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Fellowship for a year of post-graduate exploration of another culture. The six senior recipients, chosen from among 87 applicants, include Strava, Lauren E. Brants, Wilmarie Cidre, Nicholas A. Rizzo, Nora A. Sluzas, and Brittan Smith.Each recipient will receive $18,000 to travel abroad to a country...
...Desert Essence Aroma Essence Towelettes Desert Essence's handy pop-up container contains 25 biodegradable Aroma Essence Towelettes, which are seeped in essential oils including antiseptic tea tree oil, organic orange, palmarose, rosewood and lemongrass. Which, in combination, smell like the leftover milk in a bowl of Fruit Loops. Price...