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...Dartmouth that originally shattered the layer of invincibility that once exemplified Harvard hockey. Dartmouth ended the Crimson's 33-game winning streak with a 5-4 OT victory, and it was the Big Green again who ended Harvard's season last March with a 3-2 OT win in the ECAC semifinals...
...ending. Director Ridley Scott is nicely attuned to Harris' depiction of evil, of the strength and seduction in depravity. Each gargoyle gets his due: greedy detective Pazzi (Giancarlo Giannini), the venal official Krendler (Ray Liotta). Even Mason Verger, the pedophile with the skinless face (Gary Oldman, under a layer of Toussaud wax), brings wit to his lurid vengefulness. All the actors do expert turns. And Moore makes a fine, severe Clarice. As Lecter consumes his victims, so Clarice assumes their pain until her face becomes a steel mask, her quest a curse. Clarice's empathy is that of the dead...
...that army camp on the Thai-Malaysian border is mundanely commonplace. In Thailand and Cambodia scores of illicit arms exchanges happen every day, some of them for as little as one or two pistols, others for crates holding several thousand Chinese-manufactured AK-47s, still encased in a thick layer of protective green grease. The two countries are the spring from which a flood tide of weapons - pistols, automatic rifles, rocket launchers, mortars, even the occasional light artillery piece - flows to every corner of Southeast Asia. The weapons are the lifeblood of the region's criminal activity, supplying robbers...
When Dorm Crew suffered from labor shortages last year, the Adams House bathroom of Kate F. Douglas '02 , became a haven of filth and dirt which accumulated "a layer of black unidentifiable substance," she says...
...most common treatment for basal cell carcinoma, and the one used by Clinton's doctors, involves scraping away the cancerous cells layer by layer and zapping surrounding tissue with an electric needle. This can be done in an office with local anesthesia. Recurrence of small tumors treated this way is about 5 percent. For larger tumors, more invasive surgery, lasers, directly applied chemotherapy agents, or liquid nitrogen are used to kill the cancer cells...