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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]. 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 had on dogmatic, anti-Western Muslims? Maybe New Yorkers should have waved the flag of peace first and waited to see what might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 10/26/2007 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Brittany M Llewellyn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Doubts Emerge on Scabies Diagnosis | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

...HOLLIS and then swiping into Widener’s stacks is actually an act of academic autonomy that we are privileged to have. And as much as the average student dreams about a sexual romp in the stacks, those shelves are good for more than just a mediocre lay...

Author: By Emma M. Lind | Title: Stacked | 10/22/2007 | See Source »

...Eternity. As it rescued Frank Sinatra's career from the B-movie commode, the film also showed that Kerr could play something tougher than a lady: a woman. As the company commander's wife in Pearl Harbor just before the war, she's a siren this time, a notorious lay on Army barracks from New Jersey to Hawaii. "Her and them sweaters!" one soldier says as she walks toward him. In curly blond hair and a halter dress like the one Monroe wore two years later in The Seven Year Itch, Kerr lasers a knowing, weary sensuality. On the beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Her to Eternity | 10/19/2007 | See Source »

...despite everything, a tepid sort of rebellion. The Undergraduate Council (UC) president appeared on dais, invited, as requested, and at the appointed time. Many a mother would have been proud of the gray suit, under which lay a checked oxford shirt (blue), and a tie (burgundy) to match...

Author: By Sahil K. Mahtani | Title: The Virtue We Forgot | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

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