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...Core had long been threatening education like a gang of Carthaginians invading the Republic. Only in 2002 was it finally pronounced inadequate and in need of replacement. Its model of awkward categories and trivial information had led to a crisis of liberal education at the College, and so a review process began. Four years down the road, there is a feeling of déjà vu; we are left where we started and signs of stagnation abound. The President that started the review was ousted, but not before he ousted the Dean that spearheaded the effort. The faculty still...
...challenge rarely encountered elsewhere - monkeys. Hungry Rhesus macaques roam the streets and even the subway, leap through treetops outside grand government buildings and scale fences of companies and private homes in search of open windows and tempting food. Even Delhi's police headquarters has been raided by a monkey gang...
...Palestinian territories are no longer safe. The consulate in mid-August issued kidnap warnings for Gaza and the West Bank after the abduction of two Fox News reporters. On Wednesday, kidnappers struck again: an American aid worker, Michael Philips, 24, from Louisiana was kidnapped from Nablus by a new gang calling itself Jaish al-Sunna (the "Sunni Army") which demanded the release of Palestinian women and minors from Israeli prisons. Palestinian security police freed Phillips, but the identity of his captors is still unknown. According to both Israeli and Palestinian police sources, there is no evidence linking the kidnappers with...
Other songs tread on more familiar territory for The Decemberists. “Shankill Butchers,” a macabre lullaby about a gang of savage Northern Irish killers, could be this album’s “Clementine.” Similarly reminiscent of earlier albums, the following track, “Summersong,” is a wonderfully breezy folk-pop story of waning summer love...
...tries to express his feelings by leading a group hike up his true love’s thigh. This is apparently not to the blonde’s liking as she promptly brushes his gang away and chases them with green insecticide. The fleas try to climb into her panties, she scratches them off and sprays them all with green gas and then they...