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...Having abandoned mouse-whackers, on Buddhist grounds, and having despaired of the cats as hired assassins, we have resorted to a "Havahart" trap - a small rectangular steel cage, with doors at either end and bait in the middle, that captures the mouse alive. We have caught a mouse on each of the last two nights (baiting with peanut butter, of course). I come into the kitchen and find the little prodigy, eyes bright with terror, scrunched in a corner of the cage, under the flap door. It's possible that part of his unhappiness arises from humiliation at being fooled...
...reading period tends to be a time focused on the past and the very near future. Despite your lofty plans to get out and enjoy the sunshine, to really see where your courses fit in your lifetime plans, the perspective narrows to a three-hour period one morning, the rectangular space of a TF’s mailbox the next. Reading period is a time to take stock, but often only in these backward terms. You learn how little you read for your Core class; you learn how much you enjoyed that chemistry lab, in retrospect; you learn how much...
...chapter, Rehnquist offers more details than the reader can possibly absorb. For example, conferences to discuss the cases take place on Wednesday afternoon and Friday conferences begin at 9:30 a.m. for most of the year. The chief justice and senior associate justice sit at opposite ends of a rectangular conference table, and thus have unrestricted elbow room. Rehnquist also adds a human element to the workings of the Supreme Court: He and Justice Harry Blackmun shared geography trivia during dull moments on the bench, and Thurgood Marshall was the Court’s raconteur. Rehnquist also justifies...
...building, modern but rectangular, will be contructed from a light Wisconsin limestone. On the roof of a lower wing will be a garden adding "a soft top to a flat roof...
...rectangular pool is lined with beautiful Brazilian women and men sunning in tiny swimsuits. I haven't seen any thongs on women here (sorry, all you Sisqo fans), but I have seen a few rather overweight men wearing Speedo-like swim briefs that were three sizes smaller than modesty. In general, the young people here, particularly the women, tend to be in better shape physically than their American counterparts. Then again, if I grew up next to a beach in near-perpetual sunny weather I'd probably try to make sure I looked good in a swimsuit that was three...