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...make sense of the extensive nomenclature that was thrown at the audience during the performance. But the alien-sounding names ended up not being too much of a problem. Porter’s poetry is a close reading of the muscles that move us. It pays attention to the detail of these organs’ functions and the beauty of their synchronized relationships. In her performance, Porter often emphasized this theme to make a statement about the importance of working and moving together and being able to understand one another in the greater scheme of things. The poems also bring...
...were one flight of stairs away from the entrance of their suites. “They would have had to walk in and go downstairs to take it,” Rohr said. According to Porter, the third theft victim is a friend of who lives in DeWolfe, a detail he said interested the HUPD officer when he alerted her to the connection. Catalano advised students to be more conscious of securing their laptops, even in their dorm rooms. “The best way to protect your laptop is to always lock your office or residence when leaving, even...
...Writers from earlier periods fare a little better, but not much. Naipaul is a fan of the early Flaubert, whose lightness of touch he admiringly notes in Madame Bovary, but whose later heavy-handedness (in works such as Salammbô) Naipaul describes with rather laborious detail himself. So who does Naipaul like? Maupassant, Twain and "the Russians (with the exception of Turgenev...
Bloch was one of about 80 players who attended the first ever "DC Fly In," sponsored by the Poker Players Alliance, which boasts 800,000 members, has former New York Senator Al D'Amato as its chairman and distributes papers and articles that explain in some detail why "poker is good for you." This year alone the Alliance has anted up nearly half a million dollars in campaign contributions. Most of the players who came to town want Congress to license and regulate companies that host poker games online--a move, they note, that would actually raise money...
...University Police Department (HUPD) Web site, where all student-group events must technically be registered, reveals changes reflecting a stricter alcohol policy, including the automatic incorporation of a BAT Request Application for all events at which alcohol will be served. The site also advises the hiring of a police detail for “any function where alcohol is served with expected attendance of 100 or more guests...