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...ineffably mundane - a series of long meetings of forgotten bureaucrats in rooms foul with tobacco smoke. No blood was shed, few memorable speeches made; the heroes were those who could cajole a compromise into being over a hurried coffee, or draft a clause with exactly the right kind of nice phrase that would win broad support...
...Bacow made a good decision,” said Tufts sophomore Kanupriya Kapoor. “He has a tendency to take a firm stand on things and he held his ground even though there was opposition to this speaker.” “One of the nice things about talking to Larry is that he always gives you food for thought,” Bacow said. —Staff writer Clifford M. Marks can be reached at cmarks@fas.harvard.edu...
...hate to say it, but you also need to be aware of your appearance if you don’t want people to think you’re a creeper. I know it’s cold out and those were a nice pair of gloves that you found on the subway, but the bloodstains on them might make some people think twice before swiping you into the entryway. As I alluded to earlier, make sure you don’t have an unruly beard that looks sketchy. This is especially true if you are a girl...
...they say the reality of their situation was much different from what they were promised. According to the contracts they signed with Decatur before coming to the U.S., the guest workers were to live in a "very nice newly refurbished hotel with large swimming pool" and assured "[t]ransportation provided to and from work." Instead, the workers say they were put in a half-rebuilt, mold-infested Decatur motel and left on their own to get to and from work. The pool water, according to one guest worker, produced fungal infections on contact...
...benefits of the new education system when schools and schoolbuses are regularly being bombed. They point out, too, that democracy has brought to power leaders who are sectarian partisans or kleptocrats, often both. Other new freedoms are appreciated, but not in the way you might expect. Satellite TV is nice to have when violence keeps you locked indoors for long stretches of time. When you do go out, a cellphone allows you to keep calling your family every hour, to reassure them that you are still alive. As for the freedom to travel, more than 2 million Iraqis have fled...