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Unlike sex, there’s not really an excuse not to move off-campus, unless, of course, you actually lucked out with your room assignment. I personally found the dorms to be much less satisfying than advertised, but maybe that’s just because I didn’t properly pay homage to the River Gods...
...decision comes less than a year after Lowell pulled out of Claverly Hall—a building now used entirely by Adams House—in order to make the House smaller and more geographically compact. At its peak, Lowell had more than 420 students, according to Tran. Last fall, the House had 362 students...
...grow up). Ultimate Fighting changes this relationship by providing a sporting spectacle that few people were taught about as children or experience for themselves as adults. Onlookers of Ultimate Fighting thus know exceedingly little about the seriousness of the action and inevitably become distanced from the athletic experience. With less appreciation of the fitness, strength, and agility that is required of the athletes in these bouts, a fan will objectify these men rather than empathize with them as they might a baseball player or a basketball player...
Kitano is bemused by the attention. "They probably ran out of ideas," is his explanation for the invitation to exhibit at Fondation Cartier. Childhood is the show's theme, but Kitano warns that "Gosse de Peintre" is less Disneyland and more Hanayashiki Park - a fairground in Tokyo's Asakusa district that's "very old-fashioned and run down. It doesn't cost much, but it has its own unique beauty...
...them," he says, referring to the militants known as the Tehrik-i-Taliban (TTP) or the Pakistani Taliban who are at war with Islamabad while their Afghan brethren are hiding in these same saw-blade mountains to launch attacks on NATO forces across the border. The bombings are less frequent and the kidnappings, he says, have gone "from 50 a day to zero." Bringing music back to Peshawar is one thing; extending the Pakistani government's writ into the forbidding ranges outside the capital - where the Taliban and al-Qaeda have taken root among outlaws and drug and gun smugglers...