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...Have you forgiven the Indonesian government for its 24 years of brutal occupation of East Timor? We already did in 1999 when [East Timor's capital] Dili was still burning and we could still smell the destruction. For us [the occupation] was a historical mistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q & A: Xanana Gusm?o | 1/4/2007 | See Source »

...only that, but according to the MIT Technology Review, researchers are developing ways to make the little rascals friendlier - injecting bits of DNA into bacteria to make them "glow, detect light," or even smell sweet. "Minty-fresh foot fungus" is projected as a real possibility. Of course, so was democracy in Iraq, but why drag that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Friend the Microbe | 12/29/2006 | See Source »

...Nine. Get rid of the rancid smell in front of Winthrop. We don’t know what it is. We don’t want to know what it is. But you know what we’re talking about, and it’s gross. By any means necessary, be it the planting of some fragrant trees or the reworking of Harvard’s sanitation system (and green flush handles do not constitute reworking), the removal of this odor is imperative. River-dwellers can do without this daily olfactory assault...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Dear Secular Snowperson... | 12/18/2006 | See Source »

...Peter the scourge of DA’s life, but he is also the scourge of HUPD, the Ad Board, the Freshman Dean’s Office, and the staffs of Mather Dining Hall and the Cambridge City Morgue. And DA of course, will never be able to hear, smell or swallow again. Years ago we would have been holding hands and embezzling from our high school’s student council. Now our writing sessions inevitably turn into slapfights, and DA always makes Peter wear that humiliating wrestling outfit. We’re fighting to keep this relationship alive...

Author: By Peter J. Martinez and David A. Wallach, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Taint Love If It Don’t Hurt | 12/13/2006 | See Source »

...Clinton came into San Antonio for a last-minute rally after internal polls showed Rodriguez was closing fast. "It all happened so quickly, we started to smell it," Hernandez said. Bonilla had 48.6% of the vote in the Nov. 7 election, which pitted the incumbent against six Democrats and an independent. Rodriguez was second with just 20%. Yet Rodriguez beat Bonilla by 10% in Tuesday's runoff. "I was stunned by the margin of defeat," said Royal Masset, a longtime Republican consultant and analyst, "A lot of us thought there was no way Henry could lose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the G.O.P. Got Blindsided in Texas | 12/13/2006 | See Source »

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