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...there's no wind 60 m below, where the flat bowl of the crater is still and stifling, almost steamy from the moisture trapped in the sinkholes and fractures beneath the sand. The inside face is steeper. The rocks slip and clatter, startling ring-tailed dragon lizards that jut their jaws at the intruder in seeming defiance. A balancing hand placed carelessly into the spinifex needles is rewarded with a dozen tiny dots of blood; peripheral vision catches the thick brown tail of a snake gliding face-high a meter away. This is not the place to suffer even...
Thank goodness for her support. Besides Dewis, there’s Wilner’s bumbler, always with his head craned forward in a clownish jut; Burkle, who ingratiates himself to the audience with his deft comic timing; and Low, her brisk aunt perhaps too crisp but never unappealing. Technical direction is by Blase E. Ur ’07, the complex, transparent set is designed by Melissa E. Goldman ’06 and the deliberate lighting by Kelzie E. Beebe ’04. John T. Drake ’06 contributes a punchy sound design which includes...
...It’s frustrating,” Sproul said. “We’re so good at getting ahead and coming from behind, and we’re so bad at keeping a lead. It’s jut a position we’re not used to... hopefully we’ll get used to it and start pulling these games...
...Nasser al-Kidwa said the wall was not about security but about "entrenching the occupation and the de facto annexation of large areas of Palestinian land." The barrier strays from the Green Line that has demarcated the two sides since a 1949 armistice. Israel says the fence must jut into Palestinian lands to ensure security; the barrier's route near Ben Gurion International Airport, for instance, is meant to prevent attacks on departing aircraft. But German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer summed up the E.U. view in a recent interview with al-Jazeera: "Every government has the duty to defend...
...Liberation Avenue, Asmara's main street, features the gorgeous Art Deco Cinema Impero and Italian-style cafes where craggy old men sip cappuccinos and smoke cigarettes. My favorite Art Deco building is on the outskirts of town: the fantastic Fiat Tagliero gas station, which has long horizontal overhangs that jut out like giant wings from the central building. It's painted in subtle pink-and-green pastels and is soon to be converted into a disco and caf?. Asmara is full of such treasures. The more you walk, the more...