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...slips and shots of their nether-regions on days they, ahem, “coincidentally” decided to go commando, leave little to the public imagination. However, when they aren’t busy with these vital activities, famous millenials have turned television and magazine interviews into their makeshift facebook profiles, and take every opportunity to try to convey how complex they truly are. But did anyone buy it when Hilton told the British edition of GQ that she’s “very shy” or when Lohan discussed the complicated emotional introspection that...
...February, sectarian violence has forced more than 418,000 people to move, according to the most recent estimates by the International Organization for Migration. The real figures are probably much higher, since many go unregistered by the government or aid agencies as they find refuge with relatives, drift into makeshift camps or settle into homes previously occupied by members of another sect...
...anatomy was examined as if she were an automobile in a repair shop. Tragic irony loomed throughout the play and was appropriately mirrored by the unchanging background of the bridge. Set designer, Elizabeth B. Rose ’08, deserves special praise for her arrangement of furniture and makeshift bridge girders, which aptly illustrated the squalid conditions of Hester and her family. “In the Blood” consistently demonstrated how exploitation can take many unexpected forms and how easily blame can be projected onto others. Hester, in turn, shows that despite her victimization, she too is capable...
...Time heals," said Ed Adkins, as he held on the steel gate guarding ground zero. "Sometimes I want to cry, but not often." Atkins served as a chaplain at the makeshift morgue set up in the immediate aftermath of the attacks. He gave last rites to victims there, and at the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island where debris and human remains were taken. "There are thousands of stories that people are never going to hear," he said. "But we?re going...
...flows all along the Mediterranean coastline. But several routes have become favorites of the traffickers, both for the relative proximity to the poverty of Africa and for the ability to evade authorities. Beyond Lampedusa, the Canary Islands, part of Spanish territory, continues to be flooded with the arrival of makeshift, precarious boats called cayucos or pateras. In the past three days alone, more than 1,300 immigrants have arrived in the Canaries, mostly from countries like Senegal, Mauritania and Cape Verde, bringing this year's total to more than 18,000 in the archipelago...