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...coming weeks and months are likely to be tumultuous, as coalitions are hammered out and an increasingly unpopular Musharraf faces ever louder calls to depart. And the deeper economic and social problems Pakistan faces will not be easy to solve. But great uncertainty and huge obstacles are familiar to Pakistanis. What is less familiar is the feeling that now lingers in the aftermath of the election: a cautious, soul-gladdening optimism...
...this day especially, Sugamo's shopkeepers are pioneers in an increasingly important retailing speciality: selling to seniors. Five years ago, the local McDonald's menu listed french fries as simply "potato" and Filet-O-Fish as "fish hamburgers." Customers today are more familiar with the fare. Big Macs are on offer. So are 100-yen (92?) cheeseburgers and sandwiches with steamed buns, popular because they are cheap and soft. "Toasted buns are too hard for them," explains manager Hayato Akasako. "They like the Filet-O-Fish and the shrimp burger." Akasako says the elderly don't necessarily bridle...
...insane-looking contraptions are mostly an attempt to remedy simple engineering inefficiencies we've come to accept. Why shouldn't we have foot pedals on our kitchen sinks so our dirty hands don't touch the fixtures? Wouldn't a scale that converts metric measurements like grams into more familiar ones like ounces be far more accurate and less messy...
Traveling west to the 89th annual Williams Carnival, Harvard skiing ended the weekend in the ninth spot—a familiar finish for the Alpine and Nordic teams. The Crimson earned ninth for the fourth time in as many competitions this season, notching its ninth consecutive ninth-place result since 2006. Another team in a rhythm, Dartmouth secured its fourth carnival victory this winter, edging out Middlebury by a mere nine points with a final of 616. Harvard totaled 187, ahead of St. Michael’s College and Bowdoin College. Competing outside of the Ivy League, the Crimson faces...
Musen added that audiences might not be familiar with the whole plot of plays from which the scenes came, but he said he thought the scenes chosen could stand alone...