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...hooked up with someone else. This usually wouldn’t be a problem, but DA found out by reading Peter’s blog. And the real thorn in his side is that Peter contracted HPV along the way, so now DA is a shoo-in for ear, nose and throat cancer. To get back at him, DA made PB&Js for Peter’s lunch, but he used the crunchy peanut butter. One would think that after thirteen years, DA would know that Peter is extremely allergic to peanuts. Ever since the two of us were accepted...

Author: By Peter J. Martinez and David A. Wallach, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Taint Love If It Don’t Hurt | 12/13/2006 | See Source »

...tailor, "and we want to reciprocate with special treatment." he then brought me a bottle of water and delivered a stirring monologue on the history of the shirt cuff?the French cuff was apparently born when Napoleon ordered extra-long sleeves so that his soldiers could wipe their nose on the excess, then fold the cuff to hide the snot?that climaxed with "Are you ready to see our cuffs?" I was ready to invade Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Cuff Above | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

...snobs the world over like to show off their expertise by sniffing at a glass and identifying the notes of black currant, citrus and other fruits they detect. For those who find that intimidating, help is at hand from a country not usually associated with wine: Estonia. Stick your nose in a glass of Estonian red, and if it smells like black currant, then it probably is. The tiny Baltic republic is located too far [an error occurred while processing this directive] north to grow grapes, but it has a flourishing tradition of making wine from the berries that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vintage Estonia | 11/27/2006 | See Source »

...appearance, the brothers are in fact very difficult to tell apart, although Lech, the President, has a small mole on his left cheek and another on the right side of his nose. They both stand about 5'4". Lech is married with a daughter while Jaroslaw is a bachelor who lives with his mother and a cat. Now 57, they came to prominence as 13-year-old child stars in the 1962 Polish film The Two Who Stole the Moon, in which they played mischievous but endearing blond brothers. Later, in the 1980s, they joined the Solidarity movement that would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seeing Double in Poland | 11/27/2006 | See Source »

...Manfred Nowak, a United Nations rapporteur on torture, was forced to postpone a fact-finding trip to Chechnya and the northern Caucasus after he was told that his intention to visit detention facilities unannounced and interview detainees would contravene Russian law. A human-rights activist in Ingushetia had her nose broken when a demonstration to commemorate Politkovskaya was dispersed by police. Dmitrievsky's organization was shut down. "October had me holding my head in my hands," says Allison Gill, who heads the Moscow office of Human Rights Watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia's Bitter Chill | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

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