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...centimeter-thick bars on all the windows. And it's not the show in the West End. This week, for a few hours a night, the inmates at Bronzefield Prison are trading searchlights for the spotlight. The prison gym has been transformed into a small theater, with an orchestra pit at the back and a two-tier stage on which 17 women - all cleavage and fishnets - strut their stuff with the kind of attitude drama school just can't teach. Two weeks ago, rehearsals were still an exercise in controlled chaos. Now, with help from a professional director, choreographer, voice...
...Corps in 1998 dumped hundreds of tons of boulders, dirt and sand on the discovery site - officially as part of a project to combat erosion along the Columbia River, although some scientists suspect it was also to avoid further conflict with the local tribes. Kennewick Man's actual burial pit had already been washed away by the time Stafford visited the site in December 1997, but a careful survey might have turned up artifacts that could have been buried with him. And if his was part of a larger burial plot, there's now no way for archaeologists to locate...
...Vegas casino,” Liu writes in an e-mail, “This happened several years ago, however, and it’s entirely possible that the casinos won’t know or care if I return.” Indeed, Liu seems out of the pit bosses’ reach here at Harvard. “I’ve certainly never seen any gambling goons with baseball bats come around the lab looking to get even,” said Brian N. Tse, a 4th year grad student and Liu’s advisee...
...this winter, I too am putting down the remote, embracing the French language, and working on this so-called “resumé.” As job interviews and career-related events erupt all over campus, I find myself getting a familiar feeling in the pit of my stomach as my mom lectures me about my Future in her “College Process” tone of voice that I thought I had left for dead in high school. It seems like everyone around me is building a resumé that is of similar length and quality...
Also found near the Pit, IBM Professor of Business and Government Roger B. Porter, who teaches a popular course on “The American Presidency,” looked surprised upon hearing the news of Summers’ resignation but declined to comment...