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...Sunday night. When at 4 a.m., after eight hours of paper writing, my head finally hit the pillow, I had a whole schedule for Monday morning planned out in my mind. I would wake at 8 a.m. to read over and edit my paper on the moral repercussions of dwarf tossing. I’d bring my notes and slides to Annenberg for some studying over breakfast. I would walk leisurely over to Sackler Hall for the midterm at noon. Then I would return to my room to add footnotes and a bibliography to the paper—aptly titled...
...canals were an optical illusion, but as more powerful telescopes and, later, spacecraft zoomed in for closer looks, there was no shortage of clues suggesting that Mars was once awash in water. Photographs shot from orbit show vast plains that resemble ancient sea floors, steep gorges that would dwarf the Grand Canyon and sinuous surface scars that look an awful lot like dry riverbeds...
Songs on Bows are cinematic—thick, sweeping layers of piano, guitar and organ produce compelling vignettes that dwarf the simplicity of lyrics. Hamilton Leithauser’s vocals glide and soar behind a scratchy veil, adding poignancy to the mundane actions and thoughts he sings about. On break-up lament “The North Pole,” he sounds on the verge of shattering as he howls, “Everybody knows / That’s the way it goes.” But the childlike “New Year’s Eve?...
...Hizballah's support among Palestinians and illustrates the ineffectuality of Arafat's regime, which has fruitlessly demanded that Israel release Palestinian detainees. "Arafat is scared to death because of what happened between Hizballah and Israel," says a senior Palestinian security official. "The prisoner deal makes him look like a dwarf." The prisoner deal came after German mediator Ernst Uhrlau, the coordinator of his country's Federal Intelligence Service, persuaded Iran to pressure Hizballah to strike a bargain. The agreement is split into three stages. In last week's swap, Israel freed 429 prisoners and detainees and returned the bodies...
...leaning think tank the Century Foundation that relied on Pell numbers revealed that although Princeton’s student body is even less economically diverse than Harvard’s, and though Yale, Penn, Brown and Dartmouth are only slightly ahead, the two other members of the Ivy League dwarf their peers in diversity...