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...hijabs and long-sleeved shirts, the Muslim girls must be feeling the heat. "No sir, I'm used to it," says a beaming 13-year-old. She chats about professional wrestling on TV, and like every other student assigned to this neatly-kept, lush park, moans about the pink rubber gloves they are obliged to wear. By noon, when it's time to board the buses, a fun, friendly chatter abounds. "It's much better than being in class," says an excited girl from Holy Spirit...
...militant; his father convinced him never to join the fighting. But Ma-ae's village, hidden amid fruit trees and rubber plantations near Thailand's border with Malaysia, is what the Thai military terms a "red zone" of insurgent activity. Soldiers patrolling the area were recently injured by a bomb rigged in the branches of a tree. "The moment you enter my village, all eyes are upon you," says Ma-ae. His father, a well-known local official, angered militants by negotiating the release of state employees being held hostage by a mob protesting the arrest of a suspected insurgent...
Harvard’s next president must actively exercise his or her influence in the hiring process. That means viewing hiring committees not as a rubber stamp but as a final hurdle. It also means weakening structural barriers that stand in the way of improving teaching quality and scholastic diversity, even if that means confrontation with faculty who would much rather hire within their own departments and specialties unimpeded. Too much is at stake to blindly acquiesce...
...Bears don’t look bad on paper. Fortunately, games aren’t played on paper. They’re played on rubber composites these days, right...
...such dexterity that his hands seemed not to match up with the sounds he was producing. Carney pounded himself into exhaustion by show’s end, which might explain the brevity of the encore, comprised of just two songs from 2004’s excellent “Rubber Factory.” It’s tough work constructing the spine to prop up Auerbach’s complex guitar work, and Carney, teeth gritted, threw his whole body into every song. What is emphasized in their live show is the rawness of the Keys’ sound...