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Jeremy Faro '96, an Eliot House overflow resident, said he had been airing his room out for more than 24 hours, but the scent still lingered...
...joys of summer. The scent of fresh-cut grass. Water sprinklers spraying. Flowers flourishing by the porch. Neatly trimmed hedges. The American suburban dream in full bloom...
...sound track of the film Moonstruck, sterling-silver tea settings, an embroidered cushion presented by another former dictator, Nigeria's Ibrahim Babangida. Greetings from Pope John Paul II and U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher, among others, are proudly displayed on shelves. In a teenager's room upstairs, the scent of spilled perfume mingles with the stench of decaying flesh that still pervades most corners of the dying city...
...miasma of death hangs over the village of Nyarubuye, overpowering the scent of the surrounding eucalyptus trees. Their leaves, rustling in the wind, are all that moves. In the cool of the parish church, a body lies between the rough wooden pews, its skull split from crown to forehead by a machete blade. Outside, a mother and child, caught from behind by screaming Hutu militia, lie face down in the flowers, locked in a pitiful final embrace. Farther away, in a low mission building, 400 more bodies are piled on one another, the rooms thick with the stench of rotting...
Bush relished the scent of power when Nixon asked the younger man to campaign for him in 1968. But it gave him pause when Nixon took off on the "Ivy Leaguers," Bush being a Yalie. "It was a hang-up with him," Bush said, "but he was on to something. He was talking about those elitists of the foreign policy establishment thinking they had a corner on all knowledge and wisdom on foreign policy. He was right...