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Garber is a Shakespearean; all the better to carry on Harvard’s humanist tradition. She is a fixer; she was brought over from the English department to lift up the Visual and Environmental Sciences Department after the disastrous administration of its previous chair. Her work in film, queer studies, as well as her directorship of Harvard’s Humanities Center, have placed her at the center of numerous academic debates and faculty discussions. Finally, after the lukewarm reception of her last book Sex and Real Estate: Why We Love Houses, Garber may want a decade-long break...
...Mirwali invited us to lunch, for which we thanked him but declined. We were about to leave, wondering whether it was safe to go on without more troops, when we decided upon one last ploy. We caught Mirwali in his garden. One of our fixers implored him to help, playing on his sense of honor: "These men are journalists, they work for no nation," he told Mirwali. "They want to tell the world what is here. They are working for you. If something happens to them, it will bring shame to us." Amazingly, Mirwali seemed moved. He nodded in agreement...
Looters stole a bicycle and a motorbike from CNN's office here. They apparently knocked the wall down at the back. Some of Sherzai's men also stole the car of our fixer. His brother tried to stop them and said, "I want a receipt from Ghul Agha for it." They said, "O.K. Get in the car, and come with us." They didn't go far before a man turned a gun on him and said, "Do you really want a receipt?" The brother sensibly replied, "No, I don't think I do," and then got out. That...
...what my parents had to go through to buy their house,” King says. “My mom worked two jobs, my father worked two jobs, they saved, saved, saved saved. And they kind of bought a fixer-upper...
...hours before your departure, take your passport to Freetown's central police station to receive a slip of paper clearing you to leave the country. This process requires visiting numerous officials and can take up to three or four hours. Some people pay a local taxi driver or "fixer" to complete this part of the formalities for them. 2) The airport serving the capital Freetown sits on the opposite bank of the wide mouth of a river from the city. There is no bridge so departing visitors can take either the ferry or the helicopter...