Word: raggedness
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There are many signs of NATO at work as well. Office buildings, bridges and other large structures have been exploded, leaving ragged craters. Farms, houses and even some villages are pockmarked with the concussive signatures of a war conducted from the air, not always with perfect aim.
On a rocky, windswept slope some 2,000 ft. below the summit, expedition member Conrad Anker spotted "a patch of white"--brighter, he says, than any of the snow or rocks around it. Sprawled facedown on the mountainside, with arms outstretched and hands dug into the frozen ground, lay the...
And here's the sound of Close Range: Wyoming Stories (Scribner; 285 pages; $25), her new collection of short stories: "Pake knew a hundred dirt road shortcuts, steering them through scabland and slope country, in and out of the tiger shits..." (the reader fumbles this one but is swept on...
Still, based on reading the script (hasn't everybody?) and seeing scraps of the film, we get intimations of something fresh, handsome, grand. Naboo's golden underwater city glows like an Art Nouveau chandelier, while the Jedi knights' home base, Coruscant, could come from a spiffier Blade Runner. The new...
One thing the Crimson Key is right about is that "your social life at Harvard is what you make of it." So go out and make something of it. Join a group of random pre-frosh and see a show. After lunch the next day, take a stroll along the...