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...Turkish delight. Holes near the roof line are filled in with little cardboard squares. The windows are half covered in tattered plastic. The men say they are resigned to more bombs destroying their city. "I cannot change it," says a 65-year-old backgammon player as his friends nod agreement, "so I do not worry. I will just defend myself and my country as I can." Americans, he says, "should not do this, because if they do, the world will turn against them." An unemployed engineer says there is no point in preparing for the worst. "What would...
...Square, a grown student could (and still can) find refuge, even sanctuary, in the Old Cambridge Baptist Church behind the Inn at Harvard. We should remember this contribution in less turbulent times when enjoying the church's creative role in the production and performance of theatrical events, including a nod to ancient comedy in last year's "Menaechmi" of Plautus. In the late '60s and early '70s, the church was a center of protest for those politically opposed to the draft and to the Vietnam War as a whole. In the '80s, it was part of the vocal opposition...
...well-preserved body of a 30-year-old woman so obese that her fat had insulated her organs from the effects of decades of frost and thaw. He took both lungs, sliced them into thin strips and carefully packed them for shipment. Hultin named the body "Lucy," a nod to the prehistoric Lucy who shed so much light on human origins...
...PROPOSAL] Develop the Peace Corps Clinton, in nod to J.F.K., wants to nearly double the Peace Corps to 10,000 volunteers...
With every ice-gouging jump, every painted-on smile and every slip-and-slide wipeout broadcast into our homes on an incessant beam, we all know how difficult it is to become a world-class figure skater. We nod knowingly when commentators talk about turnout of feet and good position in camels...