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...shocked. "I consider myself a person who can speak on these issues - our problems and protests," he says. "But getting there and seeing 200 to 300 young men in uniforms, machines guns, rocket launchers and ammunition" - Mitee moves his hands through the air in front of him making the shape of a heaping mound of ordnance - "I said, 'God, so we have come to this...
...scissors chomp into the metalicized surface of the cardboard. Two or three snips later a rhomboid shape drops free. Fingers pick it up and start crimping and bending it, propping it against the toy-sized model building. Eventually, it is taped to the little construct (think of it as a three-dimensional sketch) and the architect, Frank Gehry, starts musing about what it does - and does not do - for his design. By and large, he seems, tentatively, to like its effect more than he dislikes it. For the moment, it stays...
...about to shoot at a legless cartoon soldier-a black shape in the middle of a yellow square 200 m away. But first I need to center him in my rifle's sights. I've managed to get the ring of the front sight to sit just inside the slightly larger ring of the rear sight. Now I shift my stance, trying to make the the thin black post in the front sight touch the center of the soldier's belt. The rifle is heavy, and the sight picture-the relationship of rings, aiming post and target-won't stay...
...investment climate. "Russia will continue to be hooked on oil revenue for the foreseeable future," says Ivan Szegvari, a Russian-economy specialist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London. Retailing is booming, but there are relatively few examples of other businesses that have whipped themselves into shape...
Kirby also reprised the progress of the curricular review, which began in the first year of his term. The review has led to Faculty approval of a semester delay in concentration choice and the introduction of secondary fields, but professors are still far from agreement on the shape of the review’s centerpiece—the next system of general education and the future of the Core Curriculum...