Word: raining
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...mean I’ve never seen snow before I came [to Harvard],” Cao explained. “I’m from Sydney, and it’s always warm, always sunny. I came here and I see all of this snow, all of this rain, all of this, this weather.”Despite the weather, Cao has been taking Harvard by storm, winning her fourth consecutive match in the No. 4 singles spot last Saturday when the team beat Cornell in Ithaca, N.Y. Cao, along with the other freshmen on the team, has provided...
...line: I go to BU. Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: Your back hair doesn’t bother me at all. Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: I love the smell of gasoline. Favorite childhood activity: Playing in the rain. Sexiest physical trait: My fingers, but my ankles are a close second. Best part about Harvard: The Eliot dining hall staff. Worst part about Harvard: Discovering that there is someone better than me at everything. Describe yourself in 3 words: No verbal filter. In 15 minutes you are: Practicing my cougar...
...world leaders and deliver public remarks at least 22 times, including five press conferences and two student-filled town halls. He would be asked to personally broker a new global economic compact and the unanimous appointment of a new NATO Secretary-General and to make time for a rain-soaked meeting in Istanbul with foreign ministers from Turkey and Armenia at which the stakes were merely to build a rapprochement after a nearly century-old genocide. (See pictures of Obama behind the scenes in Europe...
...South America. Its mecca is the Peruvian city of Iquitos, which hosts the annual International Amazonian Shamanism Conference and is home to about a dozen lodges that cater to curious foreigners. At first, local residents feared that a flood of stoned beatniks would turn Iquitos into an unruly rain-forest Woodstock. "I thought they'd be from the hippie graveyard, with tattoos and sunken faces," says Gerald Mayeaux, a Houston native who runs The Yellow Rose of Texas restaurant in Iquitos. "But these are doctors and lawyers. These are professional people...
...mourned in secret. Elders say the Americans haven't killed a single innocent. The villagers claim not to know those who are buried following bombing campaigns and mortar barrages. Yet every day, soldiers watch men leave the village and disappear into thick underbrush, only to emerge hours later to rain bullets down from their favored fighting positions. No one knows what - or who - lies at the end of the 6‑mile-long (almost 10 km) valley because no one has been able to make it that far. (Read "Avoiding a Quagmire in Afghanistan...