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...neither Bhutan nor Nepal were ever quite so transparent as outsiders liked to suppose. Kathmandu might have boasted an Old Etonian King, the finest apple pies this side of Iowa and all the mongrel props of what could be called Peace Corps imperialism, but it is still technically illegal to proselytize in Nepal, and as recently as 1990, up to 175 people were languishing in prison for spreading their Christianity. Freedom was always more in the eye of the foreign beholder than in the heart of the beheld. As for Bhutan's purity, it was to some extent imposed from...
...rather, “complicated”: he makes one client’s mother bleed her retirement fund, but he also hires a former felon as a driver, giving the young man a chance to go straight. Haller is an intriguing character and easily one of the finest Connelly has ever constructed...
...league’s tallest player by four inches and already has an automatic hook shot from the right side. Budischak has battled injuries throughout the year, but she’s proven to be a consistent threat close to the basket as well. Rollins, finally, has the finest touch of them all and plays extraordinarily well with her back to the basket.“[The post game] makes us so much more versatile,” McCaffery said. “We’ve had some strong post players, but never so many who are that strong...
...closer to her roots with a downbeat arrangement backed by a guitar sounding like it came out of a 70s blues-influenced light-rock outfit. It’s pretty and all, but it doesn’t seethe or sear as Cat Power’s finest work has in the past. But then the album drifts away again. “Where Is My Love” is particularly generic, with Norah-esque jazzy arrangements and mellow sentiments that are more likely to induce sleep than ruffle any feathers. “Islands” follows suit, with...
Harvard’s anthropodermic history seems to have begun in 1933. A Crimson article from that year reports that Winthrop House hosted an exhibition of “the finest collection of miniature books in the world,” owned by then-undergraduate R.L. Henderson...