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...exception. The last nine months at Harvard have been marked by a deafening amount of speech on issues from the grave to the trivial—a divisive war in Iraq, controversy at morning prayers, outcry over a poetry reading and boisterous debates about a phallus made of snow. Arguments and insults have shot across House open e-mail lists. Outspoken feminist Amy M. Keel ’04 and arch-conservative Gladden J. Pappin ’04 have become dorm-room names after unapologetically espousing ideas that were decidedly unpopular with the majority of students. Indeed, this school...
When a blizzard dropped more than a foot of snow on Cambridge one night this past February, students hoped the College would follow the lead of other Boston-area universities and temporarily close its doors...
...vanished too, speeding downhill toward a dubious breakfast. A snow rat poked its head out, hoping for a crumb. I broke the park's rules and tossed him a piece of cookie. Feeding anything that lives at this desolate height has to be good karma. So long as you're not offering a deep-fried sandwich...
...developer called Mills Corp., based in Arlington, Virginia, is betting yes, with a €376 million, 34-hectare shopping-and-entertainment complex, Madrid Xanadú. In addition to the ski slope, which has a run 250 m long and 55 m wide, covered in man-made snow and over 100 fake trees, the mall has 220 stores, 30 restaurants, a 15-screen movie theater and a 3,716-sq-m go-cart track. Nestled amid grassy hills, office parks and apartment blocks in a massive ring of suburban sprawl 24 km southwest of Madrid - joining the big-box Ikea...
...step requires monumental effort. I feared that not being able to think, along with not being able to see, would be an overwhelmingly bad combination. However, extreme altitude slowed down my team, so I actually had more time to plant my axe and kick solid steps in the steep snow. On the Hillary Step, I finally felt in my element. Similar to Hillary's own description, I wedged myself in a crack, my gloved hands scanning for holds, my one cramponed boot biting the rock, and my other jammed in a cornice of ice. It was 40 minutes later, when...