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...three boys with equity in their own farms, and they've had enough and want out. They're sick of drought and sick of the politics of water." Murray Hartin's poem ends happily, with the hero hugging his wife as "they heard the roll of thunder and smelled the smell of rain." For many Australian farmers - and some of the world's poorest people - real life mightn't be so kind...
...rice. Those who received the spoiled food are the lucky ones. In village after remote village that I visited in the flooded delta, no government officials had come to assess the damage, much less bring desperately needed food, water or shelter. Blackened, bloated corpses floated in rivers, the putrid smell of rotting flesh permeating the air. Yet few people seemed to hold any expectations that their leaders would help anytime soon. It is a remarkable accomplishment by the junta to have set the bar for competence so low that resignation reigns as the prospect of slow starvation mounts...
...When I remember the day, I remember concrete things. I remember how I last heard the door slam when my mother left, or the smell of the hair gel that I wore that day. Remembering days makes me conscious of the nature of loss, of the cruel synaesthesia of memory. It is a memory of my mother becoming a memory, of how 12 years of my life became the only years with my mother...
...requires is a little assistance. When we arrive at the Bright Hockey Center, a large catwalk has replaced the ice in preparation for Eleganza, a student-run fashion show and one of Harvard’s most well-attended events of the year. Even from the bleachers, you can smell the sweat of some of Harvard’s hottest as they strut their stuff through the Bright. Adelman is in her element in the VIP section, surrounded by members of the Association of Black Harvard Women and Eleganza organizers. At 8:30 p.m., the show begins, and social butterfly...
...museum by any other name will still smell as sweet. Or sweeter, according to Daron Manoogian, spokesman for the newly-styled Harvard Art Museum...