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...place of "spiritual emptiness"? Finally one balks completely - at Naipaul's tiresome insistence on referring to the black population of Trinidad as "Negroes," for example, or at his relentless tone of acidity and disdain (India has "no autonomous intellectual life;" both the BBC and Oxford are "provincial and mean and common...
...Which, as he knows, doesn't mean people can't dream. Born in a small village - "we were not even having a bus" - Gupta got the idea for his enterprise more than 20 years ago, when neighbors begged him for guided tours soon after he landed his job at Indian Airlines. "The people from my village thought I was a very big man and could show them the aircraft," he says. "But due to security I could not." In 2003, he bought a 20-year-old Indian Airlines plane "that had met with a small ground incident," cut it into...
Catching his breath during the opening number of a Broadway musical, Paulus Berensohn says that he heard a disembodied voice pose a question that was to change his life: “This is dancing on a stage, Paulus, but what does it mean to dance in life?” Two weeks later, he found the answer when he saw a woman throwing a pot. “I want to learn that dance,” he said to himself, and in that moment took up the craft of pottery. The metaphysical ties between clay, dance, and creation...
...When you play a team like Dartmouth, those types of statistics don’t mean anything,” Pizzotti said. “In 2004 they had similar rankings and we only won by a point [a 13-12 win in Hanover]. As much as I’d like to say we can just take over, with a team like Dartmouth I can?...
Rumors of freshmen burning bed sheets en masse while mites burrow through their skin has the undergraduate population on the watch for any itch that might mean they’ve fallen prey to the scabies epidemic. But does everyone need to lock their doors and hide under as-of-yet uninfected blankets? Not quite yet. According to Dr. Soheyla Gharib, Chief of Medicine at UHS, a grand total of 3 students were diagnosed as of the 13th. For the panic-stricken feeling ghost-itches everywhere, FM introduces the Scabies Watch, a weekly warning of exactly how worried you need...