Word: mischiefs
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...Herr, both said they thought Searles did not take the vandalism seriously. “I am pretty sure he thought he was playing a joke,” said Rubin-Vega. The New York Police Department arrested Brown and Searles on December 2. and were charged with criminal mischief as a hate crime, a Class E felony, and face a maximum sentence of four years in prison. The most recent reported bias incident at Harvard occurred three weeks ago. Huma Farid ’06, who is Muslim and wears a head scarf, or hijab, was crossing the street...
...nine. But in a way, Kogan says, Gershwin stumbled upon a way to self-medicate: musical composition. In that story, Kogan sees a perfect example of the “transformative healing effects of music”—Gershwin was able to transmute his energy and mischief into prolific art, and in collaboration with his brother Ira, wrote some of the most enduring music of his era. Kogan posits that the sorrow and despair found in some of Gershwin’s later works may be due to a depression the composer suffered before his premature death...
...molts. Spider, much like his young readers, is a little guy trying to learn how to navigate the world. He dreams of soaring on the wind to faraway places like his grandpa, who one day floats across the ocean to Paris. But happily, he is solidly grounded in everyday mischief, as when he laughs about grossing out people by spinning a huge sticky web on a water fountain or when he confides that "butterflies taste better with a little barbecue sauce...
...Sympathy aside, Delisle isn't above a little mischief. He gives a guide a copy of George Orwell's 1984, and he introduces a translator and a technician to Bob Marley ("Get up, stand up; Stand up for your rights!"). He has a beguilingly playful quality as an author, too. At the International Friendship Exhibition, he's shown thousands of foreign gifts to North Korea's founder, the late Kim Il Sung, all housed underground to withstand nuclear attack. Delisle sketches a few scenes that highlight the absurdity of a friendship exhibition in an atomic bunker, but stops short...
...school leavers. Even those few who have pursued higher learning are stuck. The new mainstay of the economy, the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands, is not recruiting people whose paltry work skills consist of helping out in the family garden or running a betel-nut stall. Boredom and mischief await those who come to the capital from distant provinces. Social workers and police describe growing alienation and crime. On the main island of Guadalcanal, there's the allied scourge of substance abuse, involving a potent moonshine known as kwaso. With about half the Solomons' population of 525,000 aged...