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...Pforzheimer House we’re all about competition,” said Papa R. Chakravarthy ’12 (3-1 Ivy), one of the tournament’s organizers as well as a competitor. “The P in front of Pfoho doesn’t need to be there, but it’s there because of two things: pong and pride...
Pick a dictator, almost any dictator - Cuba's Fulgencio Batista, the Philippines' Ferdinand Marcos, Haiti's Papa and Baby Doc Duvalier, the Shah of Iran, Central African Republic Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa - and they all have this in common: they allegedly stashed their loot in secret, numbered accounts in Swiss banks, safely guarded by the so-called Gnomes of Zurich. This association - of bank secrecy and crime - has been fed into the public's imagination by dozens of books and movies. It's a reputation that rankles the Swiss, who have a more benevolent view of their commitment...
With the referendum debacle out of the way, Medina believes Colombians will now turn their attention to the candidate debates that are normally part of any electoral process. "The people will be left an orphan, and they are now going to look for a new papa," says Medina...
...Korean War. Nor has gnarly, underseasoned and overcrusted fried chicken improved much. But pizza is growing and breathing; it seems to have a special place in America. Maybe it's because pizza's the most domesticated of all our dishes, meant to be eaten at home. (Domino's, Papa John's and the other delivery outfits don't even have tables in their stores.) (See the 10 worst fast food meals...
Born in Oklahoma, Roberts had a disarmingly folksy style. He wrote about his grim days as a preacher's son ("I felt quite sure that Jesus lived with us because Mamma and Papa talked to him so much") and a life that had all the hagiographic basics in it, including his mother's vow to give her child to God in return for the healing of a neighbor's child, and his bloody bout with tuberculosis and miraculous cure. "Son, I am going to heal you," God reportedly told him, "and you are going to take the message...