Word: exceptionality
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...money was just the half of the Saw story. Word soon began percolating from kids to their elders that this was no ordinary horror movie. It was, in fact, an old-fashioned mystery, an exercise in ratiocination, a locked-room puzzle - except that instead of deducing where the secret door is, you have to saw off your foot to get out. That first film borrowed elements from Poe's "The Purloined Letter" (hide a clue in plain sight) and Alice in Wonderland (an audio tape bears the message "Play me"). I'm tempted to compare the two men's existential...
...died while leaning on his cane - but nobody noticed until a thousand years later, when termites finally ate their way through the cane and the dead monarch crumpled to the floor. Like Solomon, the Bush Administration's Middle East peace policy is dead, but nobody has noticed except the Palestinians...
...Library representatives had no comment. Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) also didn’t shed much light on their approach to such incidents. HUPD spokesperson Steven G. Catalano writes in an e-mail: “As a matter of policy we never speak about specific security issues except to say that like all police departments, HUPD uses discretion in all of its activities with public safety being its primary concern.” But one senior in Currier House got in a sticky situation with HUPD his freshman year in an attempt to accomplish the second tradition. During...
...girl gabs on about something that I can’t hear, I randomly alternate between responding with “Yeah,” “Not that much,” and “I know!” This technique actually works fairly well. Except for once when a girl inexplicably ran off in tears, and another time when I unwittingly volunteered to help move someone’s futon from the Quad...
...banks will cease handling transactions from North Korea. It also says it had increased inspections of goods passing from China to North Korea by land, although there will be no inspections of seaborne cargo. Chinese newspapers reported last week that authorities had closed all border crossings with North Korea except for the most heavily trafficked one, at Dandong...