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...don’t have a giant cloth tower, but we wouldn’t want that kind of scar on Winthrop,” said Frank A. Myslicki ’12, a member of Winthrop HoCo, which served burgers and beer.At Eliot’s tailgate, things were slightly more formal...
...Egyptian Foreign Ministry summoned the Algerian ambassador in Cairo last week to hear complaints about violence against Egyptians and Egyptian businesses in Algiers; and Algeria slapped Egyptian telecommunications giant Orascom Telecom with a $596.6 million bill for outstanding taxes, sending Orascom shares - a popular Middle East stock - tumbling. On Nov. 19, Egypt recalled its ambassador to Algeria "for consultations...
...through psychologically. In a conservatory, there’s only one way in and one way out, and that crushes a lot of people. Some are able to pull it off—to go through that tunnel by sheer willpower and talent and emerge as a giant in the field. But for every one that succeeds, there are thousands that fail. My parents understood the kinds of doubts and anxiety of having only one focus. Having come here, I decided not to concentrate in music under any circumstances, as a kind of personal policy...
...much as some of its citizens may continue to romanticize France's place in the world, the Asterix syndrome no longer really applies to France, if it ever did. The world's fifth biggest economy is as globalized as any other country. French businesses such as oil giant Total, retailer Carrefour and carmaker Renault are fixtures in the FORTUNE Global 500. President Nicolas Sarkozy (nicknamed l'Américain) openly admires American entrepreneurialism. Last year, his government announced plans to make youngsters bilingual in French and English by the time they finish school. Frenchmen head two bastions of globalization...
...famous for its public bathhouses - the Baths of Caracalla are six times larger than St. Paul's Cathedral and could serve 1,600 people at once - and the Roman commitment to hygiene didn't stop with just bathing. At one point Rome boasted 144 communal lavatories. The city's giant toilets, with their long, benchlike seats, were not used every day; for the most part, Romans threw their waste onto the streets...