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...small stone alcove, the head monk pours the water over a silver cross, its detailed engravings worn almost smooth with centuries of polishing, and onto the heads of believers who come in their dozens to be baptized. For the rest of the year the waters of Lake Tana, the eastern source of the Nile, are important to the holy men for more prosaic reasons. They drink it and water their crops with it, wash in its muddy shallows and scrub their laundry on the rocks that necklace the lakeshore. After every sorghum harvest they draw the water in buckets...
...perhaps understandably so. In one of the film’s first shots of a terrorist training camp, the terrorists are shooting a training video for recruitment purposes. “Let’s shoot this puppy!” enthuses the director, in a fake, exaggerated Middle-eastern accent.Later, the terrorists watch spellbound as Omar wins successive elimination rounds on “American Dreamz.” In the last round, we see them nervously singing along with Omar, hoping he doesn’t mess up— as one of the terrorists mutters...
...birth of modern Pattaya began in the mid-1960s, when the U.S. opened a nearby air base and an influx of battle-weary and pleasure-hungry troops turned a quiet fishing village on Thailand's eastern seaboard into an R. and R. playground. Though the soldiers went home in the 1970s, Pattaya remained a preserve of anything-goes hedonism?and an object of either love or loathing, depending on whom you asked. Now the city, already Thailand's second biggest tourist draw with more than 5 million visitors annually, is poised for another reinvention, and once again...
...Habib ’07, an Economics and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations concentrator in Pforzheimer House, is the associate managing editor of The Crimson. Please send feedback to habib@fas.harvard.edu...
...London. For the Crimson (11-11, 3-5 CWPA Northern Division), it was the final game before returning home for the crucial Northern Division Championships to be held next weekend. With at least a second-place finish at that tournament, Harvard will clinch a spot at the Eastern Championships a week later in Providence. “It is always good to go into a big important tournament coming off a positive experience,” freshman driver Julia Lam said. Senior 2M-O Molly Mehaffey, who is also a Crimson editor, scored five goals to lead an offensive onslaught...