Word: slimmer
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Undergraduate Council President Rohit Chopra ’04 said he was dismayed by this week’s slimmer-than-usual offering from HUPD...
...conferences, articles and books on the man and his legacy. Chief among them are two engrossing biographies: George Orwell by British author Gordon Bowker (Little, Brown; 495 pages) and Orwell: The Life by British novelist and critic D.J. Taylor (Chatto & Windus; 466 pages). Also stoking the fire are two slimmer works: Why Orwell Matters by polemicist Christopher Hitchens (Basic Books; 211 pages) and an entertaining look at Orwell's second wife Sonia, The Girl from the Fiction Department by Hilary Spurling (Penguin; 208 pages). These additions to the mountain of Orwelliana provide new intelligence on one of literature's most...
...hard fight in parliamentary elections this December. Analysts were predicting an easy win for the opposition, thus ending the Denktash dominance of Cypriot affairs, but Serdar's role in opening the line has stolen some of that fire. Serdar Denktash was drafted late into the family business. A slimmer version of his father, he studied electrical engineering at the University of Wales, Cardiff. Returning to Cyprus he dabbled in banking (working for his father-in-law) and switched to politics in 1985 after his older brother, Raif, the heir apparent, was killed in a road accident. His generation...
...with a standard adapter), airplane armrests or car cigarette-lighter sockets. And for an extra $19, iGo's less than imaginatively named Peripheral Powering System can simultaneously charge most handheld devices and mobile phones. The Juice comes with a sleek vinyl techno-Dopp kit, so you can tote your slimmer, trimmer recharger in style. Warning: although this company's products can adapt to virtually any major-brand mobile device, you'd better check the compatibility charts on igo.com...
...gave Mavi the edge they needed. Unlike other global brands which outsource to many different manufacturers, controlling its own flexible, high-tech production plant means Mavi can afford to tweak each pair of jeans to accommodate different tastes in different countries. Turks are shorter than North Americans, Canadians prefer slimmer cuts, and Germans are fastidiously fashion-conscious. "We don't try to push the same product to different markets," says Ersin Akarlilar, Sait's U.S.-educated son who runs American operations. "That makes it harder on production, but it has helped us a lot in expanding abroad." That difference spawned...