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...Female Thing: Dirt, Sex, Envy, Vulnerability,” by Laura Kipnis...
Nicola’s got the kind of personality that gets her subjects to let down their guard—and lets her get a major scoop. Nicola coaxed professors into putting their writing up for public scrutiny and unearthed fun-related dirt from the campus life fellow. So when she’s not over at the pool with the water polo team, we can’t wait to have her here, teaching writers how to get the goods...
...darkened, Summers was lowered into a 2-m-deep grave. Kok-de Bruijn and Calderoni, the two who had spent time with the deceased, were the only ones crying. Fuligno then stepped up onto the nearby pile of earth and invited mourners each to toss a handful of dirt onto the coffin, as his fellow Baptists always do. After hesitating, the onlookers began to step forward. And, slowly, the white casket adorned with the teenagers' magic-markered calligraphy disappeared under a layer of soft, brown earth...
...gringos who go down there and live in gated communities or in condo complexes. They don't mingle as much. In our village, we live with our Mexican neighbors. My first next-door neighbor was a construction worker, and there were chickens running up and down the dirt road. By the way, chickens gobble down scorpions, so that makes them really good neighbors...
...bullet-riddled SUV storms along a dirt track in Mozambique, spraying out dust and rocks like a vacuum cleaner in reverse. Hunched behind the steering wheel, Leonardo DiCaprio wrestles the vehicle while Jennifer Connelly and Djimon Hounsou grip the rear seat as if their lives depended on it, which, in this scene of director Edward Zwick's film, they do. "Faster!" shouts Zwick. "We need more speed." DiCaprio nods and backs up, and the bucking drive begins again...