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...real? “I’ve actually wanted to be president since I’ve been about three years old,” Chris told Bumatai. Then he tossed back his head and laughed at the host’s response. It was a nice laugh: short, not too shrill. “At three years old,” Bumatai said, “I wanted to be Big Bird.” When I got into Harvard, my father told me I should watch out for the freshmen who want to be president. There were...
...said. Humility was one thing, I told him later, but come on. Before I had flown to Washington, I sat down with Andrea R. Flores ’10, who was considered likely to announce her UC presidency bid just as FM was going to press. Andrea is short, curly-haired, and surprisingly frank. The etiquette in the Harvard political scene is very much don’t ask, don’t tell, she said. The more serious you are about a career in politics, the more that holds true—except for her. Andrea wants...
...reality is that without any representation on the city council, Jerusalem's tax-paying Arab residents are given short shrift in the allotment of schools, clinics and such basic services as mail delivery and garbage pick-up. Jerusalem's new pragmatic mayor Barkat made his huge fortune mastering the intricacies of cyberspace. He may find that virtual world a cinch compared to Jerusalem's seething complexities. - with reporting by Jamil Hamad and Aaron J. Klein/Jerusalem...
Mike Edison, musician and author of I Have Fun Everywhere I Go ... (Faber and Faber), has traveled the world with various rock bands and become something of an expert on the short-lived liaison. I recently sat down with Edison and picked his brain on the ins and outs of intercontinental intercourse...
...Shamans are mystics whose common function in traditional cultures was that of a healer. Analysis of the woman's remains date her as being 45-years-old, a significant age at a time when life was nasty, brutish and short. She was under five feet tall and deformities in her spinal and pelvic bones give the impression that she may have walked with a limp, or dragged her feet. The presence of the hollowed-out tortoise shells, combined with intact bone pieces of leopards and other creatures - the complete forearm of a wild boar, for example, was placed under...