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...ever told: I lied to get into a sold out museum exhibit by showing my ID and telling the ticket agent that I was a Harvard researcher. Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: That I am standing right behind them... Favorite childhood toys: Sand, dirt and my dog, Duke. Sexiest physical trait: My unusually large pupils. Favorite part about Harvard: The D-Hall’s crispy muffin-tops. Describe yourself in three words: Left of center. In 15 minutes you are: Checking the Harvard College Culinary Society Web site. In 15 years you are: Living...
...north Darfur's main town, shopkeepers are cashing in on the influx of aid workers with money to spend. A six-story shopping mall and office block is under construction next door to Babkir's store, and scores of tiny Korean taxis dodge donkey carts in El Fasher's sand-covered streets. Other shops sell jars of the powdered milk drink Ovaltine, and tubs of Camembert cheese bearing made-in-France labels. "There's high demand ever since the African Union and the aid agencies came here," says Babkir, whose prices rise when the rainy season turns the roads leading...
...much of my experience in it, that it would never be the same with a different collaboration.”Entire scenes, according to Anderson, would not exist without such collaboration.“Jason, Roman and I were on a location scout, and we found a high sand dune, and we climbed up the top of it. And as it happened there were these burrs under the sand,” he recalled. “By the time we were up there, our fingers were all bleeding and we could barely take a step, but then...
...headwear. Unfortunately, the result is less than hip. We have since added the kaffiyeh to the anti-neck accessory list, which includes superstar fashions of the past (including poufy goose down vests to spiked dog collars). The light cottony material is great for protecting eyes and ears from desert sand, but pointless for New England’s bone-chilling autumn breeze. No matter how tightly those hippie-philosophy types clasp their newly purchased kaffiyeh around their necks, the fact remains: despite that cool devil-may-care demeanor, they’re freakin’ cold, and the organic nonfat...
...Given the range of political elements in play, some analysts suggest all sides should avoid drawing lines in the sand. "The U.S. should be careful not to overreact if Turkey does send forces into the Kurdish area, " writes Anthony Cordesman, of the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies. "The U.S., Iraqi Kurds and the Iraqi government has every reason to protest, but selective anti-PKK operations have a quarter of a century of precedents; the Iraqi Kurds are partially to blame; and it is far from clear just how destabilizing such Turkish action will...