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...airport. They head to Bishkek for R. and R. and the city's only department store, TsUM. In sneakers and baseball caps, they make a nice contrast to the Kyrgyz locals in their leather boots and felt hats. The Russians are here, too. In Bishkek's bars, you can rub shoulders with off-duty troops from the newly opened Russian air base a few score kilometers away as they drink and dance to hard-core Russian techno. And in Fatboys, a popular café, men in suits and dark glasses talk about the region's geopolitical significance. The youth...
Skipping out on half a week of classes, four undergraduates traveled to West Point, N.Y. last week to rub elbows with top military brass and discuss United States foreign policy with college students from around the world—and still managed to make Saturday’s Harvard-Yale game...
...course, most colleges have their own obscure traditions—statues to rub, say, or arches under which to kiss at midnight, or implausible urban legends involving libraries sinking under the weight of their books. At Harvard, though, tradition is as insistent a presence as the cigarette burns on my coat. Upon our arrival in September our first year, we are greeted by a list the Freshman Dean’s Office has left of all the people who have lived in our room. (Actually, this was the source of my earliest disappointment at Harvard: reading my list I thought...
...international tourist who visited Harvard’s campus Monday declined to rub John Harvard’s shiny left foot...
Capped at a capacity of only 300 people, the club offers guests the opportunity to rub elbows with musicians both unknown and renowned...