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...DeSantis had slowed down. Tan paused over her single chickwich, wondering which condiments to select from the dining hall. She returned with a small piece of jello to cleanse her palate. “It’s starting to taste really disgusting—not gonna lie,” she admitted.Meanwhile, in the Dunster courtyard, a goat (feet and all) rotated on a spit. “Ugh,” sighed Tan, “That’s really not something I need right now.”At Lowell, Tan switched condiments, choosing to moisturize...
...world of it") and existentialist shrugs ("Every player eventually dies") - but it's the lack of bitterness that makes his best pieces so moving. In "Living with Her" - reminiscent of Matthew Arnold's classic "Dover Beach" - Lee's wife urges him to come away from the window and simply lie down. Ignorant armies still clash in the night, but the prospect of a quiet moment of shared love, Lee reminds us, is enough reason to keep praising our mutilated world. "Alone in your favorite chair/ with a book you enjoy/ is fine," he writes at the end of one poem...
...sketches mounted on the walls, while other rooms convey a sense of Baroque Paris, '60s Pop Art or Zen. As in his couture collections, Lacroix intentionally mismatches fabrics and textures - think orange leather sofas, chocolate brown canvas walls, sequined drapes and lots of feathers. And when guests lie on their beds, they look up at ceilings fitted with gemmed headdresses, 18th century French prints and mirrors...
...Amidst this conflict and suffering, the government is signing agreements with mining companies for access to the mineral deposits that lie in the land of indigenous communities. Advocates are attempting to expose the connections between Salwa Judum, widescale displacement, but, many people in positions of power seem to be ignoring the situation altogether...
Beyond the financial concerns inherent in this plan lie its ideological inconsistencies with the missions of institutions of higher learning. Colleges and universities have missions that commit them to serve and better the community, callings that shouldn’t be reduced to assuage the problems the state government can’t handle. Perhaps this proposal would have been more amenable if the money taken by the state went directly to struggling non-profit organizations around the Commonwealth or other salutary areas. The fact that this revenue mechanism would have only been one of many recent ploys to help...