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...crumbling city wall, he describes the successive waves of invaders that sought to make Kabul their own. Shafiqullah Zarif, Great Game's chief security officer, who also doubles as a guide, picks up the tale with the Soviet invasion and the subsequent civil war. As the local Red Cross security chief for more than 18 years, Zarif is uniquely qualified to tell the city's more recent history, indicating the former positions of rival warlords who brought the city to its knees during the devastating 1992 to 1996 conflict...
...nothing I hate more than being asked, “Hey, do you have a second for the environment?”), I sigh and shake my head. It can be a drag to work with the administration instead of against it. Meetings, e-mails, closed doors, red tape—it’s never as sexy as spray painting your chest and hooting call-and-response chants through a bullhorn at University Hall. In many ways, I regret not doing more of that. Still, I tell myself, I’m not a complete suit...
When Bulgarians think of spring, “a fat lady with very red cheeks” comes to mind. At least, according to Sonia K. Todorova ’07 of the Harvard Bulgarian Club. “She’s moody like March,” Todorova explains, “moody like Boston.” Last Friday, Bulgarians and their friends came together in Boylston Hall for an Harvard-style Sedianka. It was your typical college party but with less booze and more traditional meat dishes from the old country. Harvard and MIT students alike...
...these pools affect college sports, if at all, and make a definitive ruling on their permissibility,” he wrote. “If there’s no money placed on a bracket, is it really gambling?” In her statement last Wednesday to the Red and Black, the daily newspaper at the University of Georgia, Osburn said, “It is a violation of NCAA rules for student athletes, coaches and administrators to participate in bracket contests when there is a fee required to participate and when there is an opportunity...
...Improbable as it may seem, this unprepossessing town of moldy red-tiled villas surrounded by virgin tropical forest and white-sand beaches was named, a few years ago, as the world's most expensive city. With a bunch of carrots selling for $10, a box of eggs fetching $13 and rent on a medium-sized house touching $6,000 a month, it's still comfortably in the top 10. The reason? Port Gentil is a ville petrolier, an oil town that has drawn rig workers and executives from places as far away as Texas, Aberdeen and Caracas to earn fortunes...