Word: dins
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...With my party off and the din rising, I resigned myself to sitting on the balcony and spying on the neighbor's festivities. The buffet tent and the chairs were filled with men, so the female members of the household were either invited to an all-women's Twelfth Imam birthday party, or confined to the house. I couldn't see the speaker, but his voice transfixed the all-male assembly, rising to extol the Mahdi's virtues (immortal, pure)."He may even be among us right here right now, in this very gathering!" he exclaimed, looking about exaggeratedly...
...gateway for Pilbara miners and North West Shelf gas-platform workers, we consult a friendly resident and get a pointer to the location. Back on the peninsula, we walk through tangled, prickly foliage and over jagged rocks. Laden with three cameras, Parker forges ahead alone, the din of Woodside's LNG plant and the whistling wind blocking out attempts at voice contact between us. Parker uses the factory's fiery emission stack to get his bearings until, half veiled in shadow a few meters above the valley floor, he finds what he's looking for: the "climbing...
...secular politicians with any name recognition, like Allawi, have become marginalized, their voices drowned by the sectarian din. In two general elections, Allawi has failed to get more than 14% of the vote, and the flight of middle-class Iraqis is eroding his natural constituency. He bemoans the growing power of sectarian forces but can only watch in despair. In private conversations even politicians with no pretensions of secularism occasionally wish for a unifying leader. Some months ago, Sunni leader Saleh al-Mutlak and I chatted about the kind of leadership it would take to pull Iraq back from...
...they are: Germans. I certainly hope I haven’t seen those distinctive black, red, and gold stripes for the last time. Adam Goldenberg ’08, a Crimson editorial editor, is a social studies concentrator in Winthrop House. He is touring the world with The Harvard Din & Tonics...
...large part of Harvard undergraduates’ social life next fall has been placed in the hands of a diverse group of Harvard students, whose interests cover a social and extracurricular spectrum ranging from the Din & Tonics a cappella group to the Harvard Yearbook. The newly-formed College Events Board (CEB) elected its five-member executive board in their first meeting last Thursday. Tessa C. Petrich ’07 and S. Adam Goldenberg ’08 will lead the twenty-member social programming group that will take over the responsibilities of the Campus Life Committee (CLC) for coordination...