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...once the world's fourth-largest lake, but now a hellishly arid [an error occurred while processing this directive] landscape of grounded fishing boats and sand. The second is the Savitsky Karakalpakstan State Art Museum, tel: (998-61) 222 2556. The few travelers who stumble upon it never fail to be stunned by the discovery. The museum is named after Igor Vitalyevich Savitsky, its first curator, appointed in 1966 when it was called the Nukus State Museum. A Ukrainian archaeologist, Savitsky could have used his tenure to simply grow the museum's collection of Karakalpak artifacts - which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Desert Flower | 11/12/2006 | See Source »

Last week, those lucky enough to drop into the Women’s Center on Tuesday were treated to a most merry proposition indeed: free Halloween caramel apples! Visitors couldn’t fail to realize that the Women’s Center is certainly a very friendly place...

Author: By Juliet S. Samuel | Title: Knitting a Revolution | 11/8/2006 | See Source »

...freedom is always a popular idea, it is not the best suited in our case. And however brilliant, our latest proposal—the Task Force’s Preliminary Report—might not be either. Both of them—just like the current Core—fail to see that as students, we come here to learn. Any desire for instruction is an acknowledgment of ignorance. We are thus not ready to make decisions about what a “liberal arts” education means. The ability to make an informed choice is perverted into searching...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: Hard and Right | 11/3/2006 | See Source »

...rich, brown layer of foam is what you’ll find, without fail...

Author: By Richard S. Beck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HOTSPOT: 1369 Coffehouse | 11/2/2006 | See Source »

More than anything, McGovern and Polk call for a better handling of Iraq’s reconstruction, saying that the U.S. should model its efforts on the rebuilding of Germany after World War II. Not only do the authors fail to provide any meaningful guidance on how Iraq can be rebuilt in the midst of a civil war, they devote only three pages of text to reconstruction, which, as in 2003, just doesn’t seem to be a sexy topic...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: There Is No Way ‘Out of Iraq’ | 11/1/2006 | See Source »

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