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...This is not always the happiest of arrangements. As darkness falls and each Harvard student tromps back to his or her bed, desk and chair, the last thing many of us want is the sound of a near-total stranger taking up space. No matter the room number, from the River to the Quad, everyone seems to share a wall with the most absurd of characters. They scream at inhumanly high pitches, they cackle and guffaw, they blast ’90s pop into the wee hours (especially during Reading Period). Some of us respond in kind?...
...Gentleman, but his report paints an extralegal role for Todd Palin that would have made the Hillary Clinton of 1992 blush. In the report, the head of Gov. Palin's security detail says that Todd spent about half of his time in the governor's office - not at a desk (he didn't have one), but at a long conference table on one side of the office, with his own phone to make and receive calls. It became a shadow office, the informal Department of Getting Mike Wooten Fired...
...flood that bursts through the castle, and one of my favorite things to do when I was a kid at school was imagine what school would be like if there was a sudden flood. It was sort of fun; I imagined sitting on a floating desk and paddling away. So I guess I was used to the idea of looking at an ordinary theme and imagining it as extraordinary. THC: When you write fantasy and you ask us to suspend disbelief, how do you know the limit? MR: It should be credible, and I tried very hard to make...
Walk past the front desk of the MAC. Take a left through the doors, walk down an office-filled hallway, and go through the imposingly heavy metal entrance. Hike up two flights of steep stairs...
...logistics company than a tourist outfit; tourism comprises only about 10% of its business. "But we hope to increase our tourism to between 60% and 70%," says Muqim Jamshady, the company's 28-year-old director who steers security intelligence to his team of driver/guides from his desk in Kabul, littered with over a dozen walkie-talkies and satellite phones. That increase will happen, Jamshady adds, "once Afghanistan gets more peaceful." He doesn't speculate exactly when that moment will arrive...