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...angled board painted with a ghostly cliff face of melting mouths, eyes, ears, and noses. Melancholy organ music played in the background as the student actors wearing over-sized baby masks with large glasses struck blasé poses watching the audience watching them or contemplating a spot on the floor or the ceiling. Questions of the viewer-performer relation were further raised by Pope.L’s shifting positions. The artist first posed beside each of the babies, slowly touching them and sending them quietly behind the cliff. He then crouched in front and watched the rest...
...future is most palpable looking out at Mumbai or Shanghai from a high floor. Here is not the septic progress of Silicon Valley or the paper profits of Greenwich’s risk arbitrageurs. Here is the stuff that would be instantly recognizable to the industrialists who built America: the hustle of men advancing fast and the delight of knowing for sure that the world is getting better, quicker. As the savings-investment cycles reach their fever pitch in South and East Asia, these societies will undoubtedly spend their trillions of reserves on infrastructure, unlocking once...
...Sushil Sonawane was on duty on the second floor that night at Cama and Albless Hospital, and he recalls hearing the first shots at about 10:15. The building Qasab and Khan had chosen was an unlikely source of hostages - a public hospital for poor women and children, funded by a wealthy Mumbai family. The second floor was the neonatal intensive-care unit, and one of the eight people killed at the hospital was a relative visiting the maternity ward. Sonawane said he and the other doctors locked the doors of the unit and tried to keep everyone quiet...
Leverett's house list burst into a series of cockroach-fueled horror stories this afternoon. It appears the pests have taken house in the towers, and spread from the laundry areas in the basement, to the top floor. There are even reports of some advanced strains of roach, as one poor Leverite exclaimed...
...honest, as a 10th floor resident of Leverett G Tower who is literally petrified by roaches (it was a scarring childhood experience!), this couldn't have been worse news. While I've come to enjoy the dungeony hallways, I'll be staying away if one of these things plops on my shoulder while showering. It almost makes me wish I lived in the Quad...