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...women still scared from a 12 goal thrashing at the hands of Northeastern Friday in the Beanpot finals showed the Cardinals a Crimson shade of fireworks. And Wesleyan might just as well have been playing another sport...
Twice a day, the line forms outside a small white building in downtown Nassau. Holding umbrellas to shade themselves from the warm January sun, citizens chat about the proceedings they have been following. "You keep hearing rumors, so there must be something to it," says a middle-aged man. Volunteers a woman who sells straw hats at the open-air market: "Everything is true; the Prime Minister is through...
...soberly addressing the topic "War and Peace hi the American Novel," considered the reasons. The true answers He in the words written in Key West, in the poems of Wallace Stevens, or Hemingway's To Have and Have Not, or Thomas McGuane's Ninety-Two in the Shade. Panel discussions are no place to properly explain the creative jolt writers get from living in the midst of the collective eccentricity that is Key West, or to give away the words that could describe summer nights when the air stays above 90°, preserving a mood of lunacy...
...Cuban leader made no mention of his country's own foreign-debt crisis, which, in per capita terms, puts most nations in the shade. In the West, Cuba owes Western banks and governments an estimated $3.2 billion, including $1.1 billion in short-term debt to private banks. More than a year ago, Cuba announced that it was unable to meet its payments; efforts to reschedule the debt burden have been under way in Paris and London since last March. But in addition, Cuba owes more than $9 billion to East-bloc countries, principally the Soviet Union...
...added protection against the chill of New England winters, or the heat of its summers, the building has such thermal protection as especially thick walls, recessed windows (for shade) and double-pane glass. It has other features that improve its in-habitability, including a large enclosed atrium, overlooked by interior balconies, and space for restaurants and shops, a rarity in a state building. Says Eggert: "Usually in designing an energy-efficient building, the client is the major stumbling block. But we got the go-ahead to make the building as efficient as possible...