Word: riverred
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...always the happiest of arrangements. As darkness falls and each Harvard student tromps back to his or her bed, desk and chair, the last thing many of us want is the sound of a near-total stranger taking up space. No matter the room number, from the River to the Quad, everyone seems to share a wall with the most absurd of characters. They scream at inhumanly high pitches, they cackle and guffaw, they blast ’90s pop into the wee hours (especially during Reading Period). Some of us respond in kind—by yelling for quiet...
...terrorist bombing was a response to a major military campaign started in August to eliminate Shining Path positions from a jungle-mountain stretch known as the Apurimac-Ene River Valley or VRAE. Besides housing the Shining Path, the VRAE is also the second most important area in Peru for coca, from which cocaine is produced. The VRAE has close to 40,000 coca plants and can produce around 100 tons of cocaine annually...
...complexities of their bodies. It took Macaulay six years to write the book, during which he took an anatomy class, watched several surgeries, and even participated in cadaver dissections. At the talk, Macaulay showed three interpretations of the digestive system, depicting it alternatively as a factory, a river, and a college campus. Other images included a series on the muscle-by-muscle construction of an eye that showed tiny people using a crane to lift the eyeball into the skull. Another depicted a roller-coaster, aptly titled “Ride of a Lifetime,” winding...
...real strength of the American educational system is not at professional schools, but across the river, so to speak,” Mahindra said, referring to the College. “Future leaders need a flexible mind, and for that, you need training in the liberal arts...
...trip took me several times across the wide, brown Missouri River, and it occurred to me that these issues of skin color and tribe have haunted these parts at least since Lewis and Clark paddled the liquid highway westward. But as I listened to voters, what became clear was that the Obama campaign is not the simple racial referendum some commentators have pictured. I heard several reasons why voters might be reluctant to support the guy, but race was rarely cited...