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...Vonnegut was born Indianapolis in 1922, the son of an architect. His early life shows the kind of aimless lateral peregrinations of someone who was in the process of inventing a kind of person that hadn't really existed before. He put in a mediocre stint at Cornell before enlisting in the army in 1942, in the teeth of World War II. Shortly afterward - and within a year of each other - two events occurred that would prove to be formative for Vonnegut. In 1944, on Mother's Day, he came home on leave to discover that his mother, an unsuccessful...
...walk-in cabinet is something I can't quite recall. But the facility certainly deserves fanfare. To describe the air inside as "smelling strongly of cheese" is not quite capturing it; it is as if the air comprises nothing but swirling molecules of brie and stilton, violently bombarding your person like so many solar particles. Arrayed on the shelves, in perfect storage conditions, are golden wheels whose names speak of rainswept farms, dark cellars and expense: Ardrahan Large, Innes Log, Stinking Bishop, Ticklemore Goat. If you want to make a meal of it right there and then, you can pull...
...agencies don't view the snakehead's activities so favorably. Illegal immigrants have little recourse should the snakehead make off with their deposit, and are vulnerable to Dickensian conditions in the places where they must work long hours to pay off their debt. Knowing the snakehead or his family personally diminishes such risks, and most Fujianese migrants are only one degree removed from the person they will pay to get them abroad. "This isn't like cocaine, where there's one boss in Colombia who directs the whole business," says Frank Pieke, the director of the Institute for Chinese Studies...
...contacts in the local Public Security Bureau help the customer get a Chinese passport. Then it's on to Beijing to apply for a visa to Russia, which easily grants visas to Chinese. The trip to Moscow is the simple part of the journey. The snakehead then takes the person's passport. He says it's for safety - it's harder to deport someone without ID - but, clearly, holding the document gives him power over his clients. From Russia, the Fujianese cross the forested and poorly patrolled Ukrainian and Slovakian borders by foot at night. Then they are stuffed into...
...More student groups should be held to a higher standard but I don’t think student leaders should be held liable for one person acting irresponsibly,” he said. “It creates disincentives for student groups to host student events...