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...just don't understand what the authorities are doing," says Beijing accountant Xiaomei, her lower lip trembling. "My dog would never harm anybody. The rule that we Beijingers can't have a dog bigger than 35 centimeters [13.8 inches] is completely arbitrary...
...composer’s deafness. “Beethoven had these conversation books where he would converse with people in writing and you can’t make a film like that,” Harris says. “You have to make the conceit that he reads lips.”But lip-reading or not, Harris still committed himself to accurately representing what it’s like to be a deaf person. For inspiration, he turned to his own deaf father, “who can’t hear a lick,” Harris...
...often explicitly negative labels placed on Latino and black students, on the surface the Asian-American is a ‘model minority.’ Since Asians are doing so well in getting into college and getting jobs, the argument runs, they don’t need the lip-service respect paid to other minorities. Several white students at dinner in one of the House dining halls, who asked not to be named, offered their own takes on the stereotype. One said, “Well, they’re science concentrators. They stick together. Socially inept...
...Handsome Dan II, Yale mascot, was kidnapped by members of the Lampoon before the Game, according to The Harvard Crimson. Later on, he was seen licking meat rubbed on the feet of the John Harvard statue. How’s that for lip service? 1962: Harvard Band members took an early morning stroll through New Haven, playing their instruments at 3 a.m. The Crimson reported that their enthusiasm, however, earned them a night in the New Haven slammer. 1963: Widener Library’s pillars were disgraced with “Beat Harvard” spelled out in blue paint...
Paris tried to break the record for the world's largest lip lock, but only 1,188 people showed up for smooches. Frankly, we expected a little bit more from a city so famed for its amour, its romance, its va-va-voom. Budapest--Budapest!--still holds the record with 11,570 simultaneous kissers...