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...There is still a sense of belonging that permeates the values of all Pirahãs. The Pirahãs see immediately that outsiders lack this quality. They see Brazilians cheat and mistreat other Brazilians. They see American parents spank their children. Most puzzling to them, they have heard that Americans fight huge battles to kill large numbers of other people and that Americans and Brazilians even kill other Americans and Brazilians...
...board members of HCS and HPS as a potentially lucrative fundraiser. Ufere, Nelson, and De Silva, with the help of Verma and David Mattos ’09, began recruiting committee members during Nov. 2007, aiming for the marathon to take place in the spring. But because of a lack of sponsorship and publicity opportunities, the group decided to postpone the event to this fall. Verma attributed the low fundraising to the fact that the event relied only on ticket sales and other donations. In its original iteration, students would have signed up for the dance marathon in groups...
...Despite the recent revisions to the handbook, students have complained that the administration’s response has been marred by a lack of transparency...
...When you’re in Brittany, it’s the sea, rather, that arrives and departs, that denudes the earth, transforms it into a moonscape, which then comes back, which recovers it.” Later on, though, her poetry varies greatly: “Their wings lack hands. / Their mouths lack teeth. / Their pelvises lack a bladder.” Étienne reinterprets the “sonnet” as a structure based not around meter or rhyme but emotion. For her, the restrictions of the sonnet are restrictions meant to be overcome. The interactions...
...more than 100 federal departments and agencies to begin poring over their operations. Meanwhile, the new Administration is looking for more than 300 Cabinet secretaries, deputies and assistant secretaries, plus upwards of 2,500 political appointees who do not require Senate confirmation. Not that there will be any lack of candidates: in the first five days after Obama's team set up its Change.gov website, 144,000 applications poured...