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Just jump, Georgy Bailey: this isn’t “A Wonderful Life.” Here are five great holiday stories in unexpected places. 1. Die Hard—Bruce Willis, in his first major action flick role, plays tough NYC cop John McLean coming to meet his family for the Holidays. A German terrorist/robber gets in the way. Choice lines: “I’ve got a machine gun now. Ho, Ho, Ho,” written on a sweatshirt in blood, and “Yippee kai- yay motherfucker.” Also...
...chair of Harvard Students for Rudy, Rohan V. Prasad ’10, and four others are scheduled to meet Rudolph W. Giuliani himself at a small house party near Manchester. But even that incentive is not enough to tear die-hard undergraduate Giuliani fans from looming papers and midterms. As the mostly empty bus drives off, only one other Giuliani supporter is accompanying Prasad...
...fisheries are turning gradually into deep-sea fisheries because they have fished themselves out of the shallow waters," says Robert Steneck, a marine ecologist at the University of Maine. "The solution is not going into the deep sea, but better managing the shallow waters, where fish live fast and die young but where the ecosystems have greater potential for resilience...
...only four routines, which she mixed and matched to accompany the HUB’s fight songs. But last summer, she turned up the volume, spending ten weeks with her coach back in Rockdale to craft routines that would perfectly align with the band’s full repertoire.A DYING ARTRockdale, where Liles grew up, is a small farming town about 70 miles northeast of Austin, the kind of place where life revolves around the town square and the football field. The chamber of commerce Web site prominently displays a photograph of reddish brown cattle standing placidly in a pasture.During...
...frustrating. But India’s water woes extend far deeper than mere inconvenience. An estimated 700 million Indians, roughly two-thirds of the population, do not have access to adequate sanitation. Over two million children, especially those in poverty-stricken areas where water is highly contaminated or inaccessible, die every year for want of clean water. Both the fickle faucets of India’s suburbs and the crisis conditions of its poorer areas stem from the same problematic root: that even in the presence of opportunity and emergency, the Indian government has failed to address the national shortage...