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...better life, and a hesitant supplication to purchase. Sometimes, there's a toddler asleep atop the cart, his or her head pillowed perhaps on a copy of Angkor - Cambodia's Wondrous Khmer Temples. Upward of a million visitors a year - backpackers, pensioners, Tomb Raider aficionados, newly flush Eastern Europeans and large groups of Buddhists from Japan and Korea - come to gawp at Angkor Wat. Looming, enduring and vast, it is just one of a host of exquisite temples in the area. But by the end of the day, both culture vultures and common-or-garden tourists are more than ready...
...format of the three-day invitational parallels that of the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League (EISL) Championships, which will take place on Feb. 22-24. The competition this weekend, although unimportant in league standings, allowed Crimson swimmers to measure up with swimmers from across the nation and prepare for Easterns in a similarly-formatted meet. The Crimson will not compete again until Jan. 5, when it travels to Rutgers for a dual meet...
...Zealand. The international market for students has become a lot more competitive recently, a trend visible at an exhibition of European universities in New Delhi last week. Potential students flocked to the show, grilling exhibitors from Europe's traditional powers, such as France and Germany, but also eastern upstarts such as Hungary and Lithuania. The number of European universities offering courses in English has risen dramatically over the past few years, making them more attractive to Indian students. "The Europeans are welcoming Asian students," says Nidhi Mahajan who was manning the stand for the Graduate School of Automotive, Aeronautical, Space...
...tough to put a positive spin on the massive eruption of mud that has displaced more than 12,000 people and buried a large swath of eastern Java in roiling, putrid sludge. But PT Lapindo Brantas, the Indonesian mining company widely blamed for releasing the reservoir of pressurized mud following a drilling accident last May, has come up with a novel form of damage control: sponsoring a sinetron, or Indonesian soap opera, on Surabaya TV station JTV. The 13-part series, Gali Lubang, Tutup Lubang (Digging a Hole, Filling a Hole), is a love story set among refugees left homeless...
Samuel G. Hodkin ’07 is a Near Eastern languages and civilizations concentrator in Dudley House...