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...most said they came for the free food. UC members placed plates of fruit tarts and chocolate mousse on a table inside the lobby, but struggled to bring the food from Felipe’s inside the overcrowded library. Improvising, students grabbed handfuls of quesadillas from plates and tossed foil-wrapped burritos into the crowd...
...tend to be less interested in looking at origins of such-and-such modern practice, and more interested in using the Middle Ages as a foil for modernity, as a mirror to understand our own culture,” Smail said...
GIVE THEM A REASON TO BITE The 2006 X-Rap lures are the latest from Rapala, a Vaaksy, Finland--based firm. The translucent bodies' holographic foil will dazzle your prey, and the scalelike detail is beneath a transparent skin, so it won't wear away. The $14 model, top, works best for bigger game, such as grouper...
...including bombmaking, before he delivered a statement last week formally ending the organization's 36-year armed campaign to force Britain out of Northern Ireland. But skeptics noted that the group had made promises in the past without ever fully giving up violence--or the intimidation of witnesses to foil prosecutions. To address the doubters, Cabinet members in London and Dublin asked a watchdog agency to report next January on whether the I.R.A. is sticking to its vow. "It's time to put some meat on the bones," said Alan McBride, whose wife and father-in-law were killed...
Hawk-visaged Basil Rathbone embodied Conan Doyle's detective in 14 B movies, some transporting him from Victorian to modern London to outwit the Nazis. As Dr. Watson, Nigel Bruce was an ideal foil for the great...