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...when our society’s idea of entertainment is a Saturday Night Live sketch in which guest star Alec Baldwin quips, “I don’t pretend to know who these Chinese people are. I know they’re small, maybe one or two feet high. I know they sound funny when they talk. I know the womenfolk have sideways vaginas. But underneath their scales, they’re just like...
...small number of free-lancers in Baghdad hoping to make a buck and, his family recalled, do some good. A "tower guy," he figured he could earn as much as $20,000 a month repairing antennas in Iraq, a job that sometimes involved climbing hundreds of feet of latticework in 120° heat, according to business consultant and fellow free-lancer Andy Duke, who says he drank some beers with Berg the night before he disappeared...
...daughter, to be named Rozalia, next month. (Their first, Angelica, is 12.) "I want to be with my family, play checkers and Monopoly, see my friends - an ordinary life," he says. After 20 years of walking, logging thousands of kilometers all over the world, the chance to put his feet up would truly be golden...
...recommendations for undergraduate housing, moving the public health and education schools and building a science hub of at least 1 million square feet affirmed and added details to the plan for Allston outlined by University President Lawrence H. Summers in October and first proposed last July...
...region over the centuries. In the beginning, Muslim states did not carry forward many of the worst tortures (including crucifixion) of the Persian and Roman empires they replaced. They did introduce tortures of their own, from the amputation of limbs to the common beating of the soles of the feet, the falaka, that are cruel by our standards. But Muslim societies were guided by ideals and values that Westerners can recognize and which still animate penal reform today. A look at the evolution in the region of both torture and attitudes about...