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...daughter Melissa (Anna I. Polonyi ’10), for whom Meg is throwing an engagement party and with whom Blair has been in love since high school. A delightfully quirky mix of guests arrives throughout the day, including a broke businessman turned porn writer (Steve Sweeney), a giggly southern belle whose past is not as chaste as it seems (Rebecca M. Harrington ’08, who is also a Crimson columnist), and a pair of man-hungry rivals, Diedre (Windsor G. Hanger ’10) and Rebecca (Caitlin C. Vincent...
...crew, the oft-mentioned Gilla House. Praise for the new posse dominates a large portion of the album, and they finally try their own hand at the mic in the crowded “Sumtn’ 4 Urrbody,” which wastes a great Southern beat on bland rhymes. One of Gilla House’s minions (they’re hard to tell apart) is particularly uninspiring: “My bitch be like, ‘damn nigga, wash yo’ feet’ / She say the hair on my chest look like taco meat...
...Take a walk, however, in any one of this city's safe and prosperous neighborhoods and you'll quickly see that the other Iraq isn't so far away. Some 150,000 displaced Iraqi Arabs have taken refuge in Kurdistan from the conflict in the central and southern parts of the country. Kurdish officials require Arab Iraqis trying to enter Kurdistan to have a Kurdish resident vouch for their character. As a result, the Arab refugee population is largely middle class, with a glut of doctors, lawyers and other professionals. But as the number of newcomers swells, tensions are rising...
...sheltered Tian, who had been so dependent on his sports handlers that he didn't know how to order food in a restaurant until he was 25. "I enjoyed all the activities. I never traveled before. Now I get to go to a lot of places," Tian told the Southern Weekend. "Nowadays more athletes receive invitations from companies. I believe this is how the sports industry needs to develop...
...Refugees representative in Lebanon. Still, the U.N. has worked out an agreement with the Lebanese government whereby any Iraqi given official refugee status by the UNHCR can stay in the country for a renewable one-year period. (UNHCR now automatically grants refugee status to anyone from central and southern Iraq.) But most Iraqi refugees aren't legally allowed to work in Lebanon, and those who do usually take menial under-the-table jobs such as washing cars for $14 a day. A number of Iraqi women have ended up working as prostitutes...