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...Missed Opportunity? As Nancy Gibbs put it, the city of New York prevented Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from laying a wreath at ground zero because New Yorkers were revolted by "the prospect of a tyrant's hand touching sacred ground" [Oct. 8]. I do not want to discuss how many tyrants the U.S. has tolerated vs. how many it has fought. But wouldn't it have been good diplomatic form to have allowed Ahmadinejad to lay a wreath in honor of all the 9/11 victims killed by Islamic fanatics? What kind of impact would his gesture have made...
...Everyone has their own training regimen,” Mih says. His secret? Canned vegetables. After gorging on the fiber-filled veggies, he copes with the aftermath in the lab he works in. “There’s an air mattress. I kind of lay there for a while.” For those interested in super-eating but fear the health risks, don’t fret. Mih assures us, “There’s always a paramedic on hand...
With 2:30 to go in the final quarter of Saturday’s football game, the ball lay in the hands of the Dartmouth offense. The Big Green needed a single touchdown to tie the score and send the game to overtime. The Crimson needed a stop...
...poetry proves to be comical, interpretive, and sporadic. It is also quirky, as can be expected about a work devoted entirely to the muscles. However, Porter’s accompanying dance truly made the poems come to life. While speaking the poems aloud, Porter skipped, twirled, ran, rotated, lay, jumped, crunched, and curled all over the stage, using that single chair as a point of refocus and occasional music as a mood intensifier. All other aspects of the stage and set were empty, giving the performance a raw, bare-bones aesthetic. Just as Shakespeare’s plays are meant...
Scabies, a highly contagious but treatable skin disease, is caused by mites that burrow under the skin and lay eggs. The disease leaves a rash, tiny blisters, or bumps on the skin, though symptoms may not appear for four to six weeks after exposure...