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...heard a sound--"Papa ..."--and saw a girl of about 3 clinging to a wooden plank. "It was terrible," he says. "There were so many men on the bridge, but nobody made a move. I realized then that nobody was going to help, so I ran to the river bank and waded into the water." Moved PermanentlyMoved Permanently

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 6 Tales of Courage | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

...consequence of the very same randomized housing system. Though equal HoCo funding is necessary to justify randomized housing, the author apparently believes equal student voice and equal access to academic resources are not. In fact, the administration must especially address the disparate distribution of resources between the River and the Quad because of its randomized housing system...

Author: By Robert M. Koenig | Title: Quad Residents’ Concerns Are Not Trivial | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

...assistant, the gentle, mystical Mark Anthony Yhap. But the attempts to get the White Diamond up are at the heart of the film. And when, accompanied by beautiful choral music, the airship finally rises to soar over the forests and villages, or is viewed as a reflection in the river water (where it looks like a giant white blowfish), the movie attains an astonishing spiritual buoyancy. ?I?m high!? Dorrington exclaims. ?High on helium!? So was I: high on this documentary?s magical realism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 2005: Richard Corliss' Top Films of the Year | 12/17/2005 | See Source »

...luxuriates like Eve in an arabesque of luminous lotus flowers, surrounded by lionesses with gleaming yellow eyes and other half-glimpsed animals from disparate continents. And in the most erotic work on view, the haunting Snake Charmer (1907), a woman's nude figure in dark silhouette stands by a river against an unearthly sunset - or is it moonrise? Flowers and grasses glow with an inner light. Her face is partly hidden by her flute and by the snake draped round her neck - we see only the pale glint of the whites of her eyes. Rousseau said that when he visited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Jungles Of The Mind | 12/17/2005 | See Source »

...best academic institution in the country. These five months have given me so many experiences and memories that have extended far beyond books and classes. Without Harvard’s generosity, I never would have had the opportunity to jump on the Red Sox bandwagon, row on the Charles River, tailgate before The Game, walk through the snow to class, or dine in the home of President Summers...

Author: By Sarah E. Dawkins | Title: So Long, and Thanks | 12/16/2005 | See Source »

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