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...word processors? The fee for use was lowered to $1 an hour at the end of the semester due to lighter than expected usage...
...will be very violent with visible cracking of ground, quite likely with heavy damage around epicenter," Morris says. The distance of the earthquake from Chengdu, which has 10 million residents, helped prevent more extensive damage. "Going as far as Chengdu ... you can expect have quite strong shaking but much lighter damage. That will depend on local buildings and local building codes," Morris says. There hasn't been an earthquake of this size in the region for at least 30 years...
Among the first paintings Htein Lin made during his 61/2 years in a Burmese prison was a self-portrait. The likeness is only passing - he had no mirror in his cell - and the line is uncertain: in lieu of a brush, he used the pieces of a disassembled cigarette lighter. The theme couldn't be clearer, however. The artist's face is enshrouded by prison bars. Yet sprouting from his head is a verdant tangle of vines that sprawls to the painting's edge - a fierce assertion that the mind, unlike the body, will not be held captive. "While...
...Cabot Musical Theatre’s production of “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.” The show will go on Thursday and Friday in the Cabot House Junior Common Room. Originally three hours long, the musical opens on Thursday as a lighter, two-hour version. The production is full of Cabot House spirit, from the cast to the production staff and the director. Susan Livingston, a Cabot House administrator, says, “We are unique in Harvard undergraduate theater in that when we say a house production, it truly is only Cabot...
...could win during their appeals. Says Alfredo Rangel, director of the Security and Democracy Foundation in Bogota: "If a U.S. appellate judge cuts Trinidad's sentence to, say, below 20 years, it puts the ball in the FARC's court." Another possibility: the pair's transfer to, and lighter sentences in, prisons in France as part of the possible Betancourt exchange. "We aren't discounting [either] scenario," says a U.S. official familiar with the case...