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...almost anywhere, while the people of the Rainbow Nation, with a carefully placed sombrero here or a hijab there, could be almost anyone. Hollywood descended. In the last few years, South Africa has doubled as 16th century England, Iraq, Mexico, the earth in 10,000 B.C. and outer space - as well as other parts of Africa. As a result, Cape Town now finds itself home to a thriving film industry that employs 25,000 people and contributes some $800 million a year to South Africa's economy, according to Laurence Mitchell of the Cape Film Commission...
...there, space cadets, we at FlyBy just thought we'd wish you a happy 4/20 (4:20). While Harvard has a devastating lack of smoker solidarity, we still love walking by certain finals clubs on Mt. Auburn, where members apparently let skunks loose all over the place to mark this occasion, or stopping to appreciate the glorious smell of dirty laundry as we saunter along the river. What we're trying to tell you here, is that we salute you, you little stoners...
...were saying, this decision to admit students is arguably our most significant change in policy since we granted women access to the main dining rooms in 1968. My, what a fuss that was! The Ladies’ Dining Room was pleasant enough, with ample space for their knitting circles, but—heh—you know how those Radcliffe women can be. We must admit, though, that their feminine touch lends a charming dash of domesticity to our proceedings. It can’t be all cigars and snooker all the time, you understand...
...memos, dated May 30, 2005, quotes an internal investigation by the CIA inspector general (IG), revealing that two detainees were waterboarded on scores of occasions in the space of a single month. In August 2002, Abu Zubaydah, the first prisoner put through the CIA's overseas detention program, was waterboarded at least 83 times; and in March 2003, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the confessed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, was waterboarded 183 times. (These numbers were redacted in one version of the released memos, but were noticed in a separate version by Marcy Wheeler of the blog emptywheel...
...benches packed while strangers share restaurant tables. And for the 40,000 people who die there every year, it turns out there's no respite from the crowds either. While land shortages forced most Hong Kongers to abandon burials in the 1980s, now the city has run out of space even for cremated ashes. By some estimates, around 50,000 families are presently storing their relatives' remains in funeral homes while they wait, perhaps for years, to secure a one-square-foot wall niche in one of the city's public columbaria - buildings designed to house cremation urns...