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Plan B :: Perhaps nothing can suffice to fill the void. Thankfully, members who can’t get their fix anywhere else have one last resort to turn to: the Spee—via the back door...
...war” of nutrition, which included a football game, a tug-of-war battle and a musical theater production, Adams agreed to “adopt” Pforzheimer House. Residents of that Quadded fiefdom partake of the joys of Adams dining without having to resort to any subterfuge or indignity. But all other non-Adamsians wishing to enter its veritable cafeteria paradise were subject to the same inconsistently-enforced interhouse dining restrictions that were in place. And there, in 1999, the issue stood...
...Kurdish trenches are hit by mortar and heavy machinegun fire from the Ansar lines on a daily basis. On Monday night, TIME's correspondent had sheltered with a peshmerga frontline unit through a four-hour barrage. But the resort to suicide tactics shifts the boundaries. Some of the soldiers present during the attack at the Zamaqi roadblock claim a suicide bomber struck the Halabja bazaar last year. However, a Kurdish political officer assigned to oversee the Ansar front, Burhan Saeed Sofi from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party (which controls the Kurdish region's eastern half) says that attack...
...19th century. During the civil war, visiting foreign correspondents were usually the only guests in this museum of Dutch-colonial furniture and cavernous suites that cost less than $30 a night. Zecha is negotiating with the government to take over other colonial properties and is creating a new beach resort on Tangalla. If you're searching for your own slice of paradise in Sri Lanka, now's the time to get out your wallet...
...sisters’ legacies. “Going to boarding school made me very independent,” she explains. Simmons also took a year off in between high school and college, during which she worked for a Manhattan advertising agency, taught skiing at a Vail resort, and then spent three months backpacking through Europe. “Being on my own and supporting myself gave me the perspective of being an independent individual,” she says. “Sure, my sisters went here, but I am own person...