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...with any new genre, there's lots of lingo to learn in order to speak the language of pre-conception fluently. Much of it will already be familiar to women who haunt fertility Web sites and message boards. TTC = trying to conceive. Aunt Flo, or AF, refers to the monthly visitor that makes for an especially unwelcome guest when trying to get baby on board. Murkoff devotes an entire page to other acronyms, alphabetized and far more obscure: If BD is baby dance, a.k.a. sex, then DP translates as dancing partner. There's also BFN (big fat negative...
...employed as User Assistants, FAS IT Senior Client Technology Advisor Noah S. Selsby ’95 confirmed to The Crimson yesterday. Selsby denied that the cuts were budget-related and wrote that the cuts are aimed at “refocusing the way the services are provided in order to increase efficiency.” “While the timing of these changes coincides with cuts in other areas of the university, this particular change will not constitute a savings for FAS IT,” Selsby wrote. At a mandatory meeting for all UAs held yesterday...
...from the content, most of the recording took place in or around 2000. Members of his family say even they were unaware that this was taking place. The recordings were on cassettes - mostly Peking opera and kids' music - that had been lying around the house. Zhao methodically noted their order by numbering them with faint pencil marks. There were no titles or other notes. The first few recordings were of discussions with friends. But most were taped alone, and Zhao apparently read from a text he had prepared...
...Indeed, neither President is exactly a paragon of statesmanship. The reality in Afghanistan and Pakistan is that both governments have been unable to provide the most basic services - security, education, justice - for their citizens, which is why the Taliban, which has some fairly strong ideas about law and order, has been able to intimidate its way back into control of some areas. Karzai has an excuse: his country has suffered through 30 years of war, although the alleged participation of his brother in the Kandahar-province opium trade and the utter corruption of the Afghan civil service don't help...
...Western press of growing Talibanization in the country as "propaganda." Shireen Mazari, a right-wing columnist, sees even more sinister plots afoot. "Is it really in the American interest to have a stable Pakistan right now?" she asks. "Or is it actually pushing us towards instability in order to achieve its agenda of obtaining access and control over our nuclear assets?" Says Rashid: "All of us go by conspiracy theories. We are all blaming somebody else for our mistakes. Why don't we wake up and start blaming ourselves?" (See pictures of Pakistan's lawyers celebrating victory...