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...general, we encourage the UC to explore nontraditional methods of helping students achieve their goals, no matter the situation. In particular, funding student businesses may help to fill the gaps left by College administrators and other student organizations, which may not be able to account for all the needs of the student body...
...fairy shrimp- / eggs which hatch after fifteen years.” Poets have used lists to great effect before. But unlike Gerard Manley Hopkins in “Pied Beauty,” a poem similarly concerned with nature and spirituality, Nilsson merely lists. The words above have no particular rhythmic quality; the enjambments do not aid the poem’s flow. This list style, prevalent throughout the collection, ensures that these images, individually so enigmatic and striking, lose their impact and individuality. The reader would need endless patience, not to mention an excellent dictionary, to parse the intricacies...
...David Brooks. She does not, however, face such issues.It seems as though Brooks and those in his camp are perturbed, perhaps, by something they find more fundamentally unsettling: the First Lady’s overwhelming capacity for duality. She is strong and motherly, sensual, while still serious and successful. Particularly, it seems that many are concerned with how the coexistence of these traits might come across as threatening when exhibited by one woman. In this light, “cover them up” can be viewed as a veiled call for self-segmentation.Michelle Obama seems to have harmonized what...
...total make for 122 guest rooms. Each features a terrace that overlooks either the waters of the Perfume River or the distant stone towers of the former Imperial Citadel. Decked out in warm ocher, dark woods and raw Vietnamese silk, the rooms exude good taste, but the suites in particular benefit from wooden four-poster beds and themed décor that can depart, rather fancifully, from local tradition - one draws its inspiration from ancient Egypt, creating a setting worthy of a swashbuckling Tintin adventure. (See 10 things to do in London...
...willfully maintaining that our nation is above religion can lead to dangerous results. Our nation is unhealthily divided over the issue, with some Americans frustrated by what they see as one particular religious group gaining dominance and others reacting to what they see as a secular onslaught on their faith...