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...really crossed over to the realms of “talking,” try your shot at the command “write” followed by their username to send a message instead. The chances you’ll snag anyone outside the FAS network are pretty slim, but here within Harvard, thanks to Unix, there’s someone for everyone. After all, you don’t name a command finger with no intention of under-the-cover action...
Which is why, thankfully, this is a view held by the slim minority of the students on campus. And it seems to emerge from their religious beliefs. These are the same people, who, a month ago, were crying bloody murder over the violent Muslim reaction to the Danish cartoons. Muslims, they huffed, were imposing their backward dogmas on the liberal West. It turns out Harvard’s conservatives are just as imposing and just as medieval. The irony, as the writer Arundhati Roy once put it, is enough to make a skull smile...
...premise of Apex Hides the Hurt is slim even for a slim novel (212 pages, generously spaced). Our hero is a nomenclature consultant, a man whose job is thinking up names for products--"healing the disquiet of anonymity through the application of a balming name." He's a mordant, gloomy, heavy-lidded fellow given to hiding in his hotel room, nursing the memory of a recent professional calamity, the nature of which we learn only gradually...
Makeup Like other beauty retailers, Sephora is eager to make room for niche brands by makeup artists because they appeal to trendy customers and help set the store apart. The perfumery asks big brands to ditch their "Boeings"?oversize displays?in favor of slim, curvy ones, in an effort to boost sales per square foot...
...police raid - all of which could change the way that future Olympics fight the war against banned substances. The saga began to unfold just before 5 p.m. when Mario Pescante, Italy's official representative to the Winter Games, arrived at the office of Carabinieri Colonel Angelo Agovino carrying a slim file and a photograph of a stout 48-year-old named Walter Mayer. The Austrian cross-country and biathlon team coach had been busted after prohibited blood-transfusion equipment was found after the Salt Lake Games in 2002, and banned from the Olympics for 10 years (although he always claimed...