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...still not allowed to use the oven without supervision. I am embarrassed that I have been wearing the same T-shirt for five days in a row because I have simultaneously run out of detergent and clean clothes, causing people to mistake my eclectic mix of ketchup, mustard, and grass stains as tie-dye. I’m ashamed to admit that one time I got so angry at my roommate over an argument concerning Harry Potter that I threw his shoes out the window and dunked his toothbrush in the toilet (he only knows about the shoes). While these...
...good news for Cambodia's farmers. Each year before the planting season commences, all eyes in the capital turn to a pair of hungry royal oxen for guidance. Placed before the sacred beasts are seven golden trays bearing, respectively, rice, maize, sesame, beans, rice wine, water and grass. What the cows eat - and don't eat - during the ancient Royal Plowing Ceremony predicts the upcoming year's harvest. Munching on rice is good, a signal of a bountiful crop to come. Forgoing water for rice wine could presage a drought, along with a possible surge in public drunkenness...
...Cambodia's deeply superstitious farmers. A member of parliament watching the recalcitrant cows said he thought it was the most pathetic display of bovine appetite in more than a decade. (Making the sting more painful: royal cows at a similar ceremony in neighboring Thailand a few days later ate grass, corn and rice with gusto...
...That sequence added to the Crimson’s collection of flashy leatherwork on the afternoon, highlighted by a pair of diving catches in right field in the fifth. First Francis made a sprawling grab in the gap in right-center, and then Kidder ranged onto the grass and made a tumbling catch on a low pop-up. “Our defense has been a staple all year,” Allard said. “It was great to see us come out strong and steady defensively.”But then Hodge, down to the Pride?...
...brief, but it did not go unnoticed. Furthermore, students found out later that there had been a full chain of emails questioning their presence on the Quad field. Those sending the emails expressed doubt that the people on the Quad were Harvard students, and expressed annoyance that their precious grass was being destroyed. As participants of the Challenge heard about these emails and began to read them, many of them felt emotions in the realm of hurt, frustration, and anger...