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...deep spider hole; the palace monster of monuments and torture chambers had been reduced to the life of a bug. His captors picked through his shaggy hair, the raccoon beard. They scraped his throat, checked his teeth. "Merry Christmas," said the soldiers to one another, and they lit cigars and took pictures and smiled...
...never forgot to light a fresh cigarette directly after the previous one expired. He recalled the 1986 phone call in which he told Marcos the Reagan Administration's support was collapsing. "Blas," Marcos bellowed. "You know the Soviets. Can you give them a call?" Remembering this exchange, Blas lit another cigarette and chuckled. He said no to his boss? in effect declining to help make the Philippines a Soviet colony three years before the Berlin Wall fell...
...dissolution of SafetyWalk is tragic in itself. This particular blunder, however, is just one symptom of the University’s greater affliction—its over-reliance on students to keep themselves safe. Although students can certainly exercise common sense by walking in groups and avoiding dimly-lit areas, and a student-run program such as SafetyWalk can potentially be beneficial to keep members of the Harvard community secure, the University has a fundamental duty to provide additional safeguards that do not solely rely on students’ own volition...
...Undergraduate Council’s Safety Committee—which Kidd chairs—plans to reexamine the Harvard University Police Department’s alert notification system and renew their focus on efforts to notify students about pathways designated as well-traveled and well-lit, according to Kidd...
...surprisingly moving outburst at his impending death; when Parolles was forced to go, cap in hand, to a man who detested him; and when the King told Diana that she could marry any lord she liked—and Diana responded with a smile so bright that it lit up the hall. There was a lot of magic in this All’s Well...