Word: spartan
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...very pregnant black woman struts angrily across a spartan stage, her pink terry-cloth bathrobe barely large enough to fit around her protruding stomach...
...surgery would be simple, he said, if brutal. He would saw her shin bones, affix metal braces with 16 steel needles to her legs, then slowly stretch the newly forming bone tissue into a longer pair of gams. A steep $11,000 later, Xiaowei found herself in a spartan Shanghai hospital room surveying her scarred but elongated legs. Four months in the dingy ward have left her stir-crazy, but Xiaowei shows off limbs already stretched 4 cm. "I can take the pain, if it means I can become a diplomat," she says, wincing as she shifts her metal-embraced...
Whether or not the administration can reconcile Harvard’s Spartan philosophy of “play only so that we can better work” with an extra day for Thanksgiving travel, the Faculty and TFs should take it upon themselves to make Thanksgiving travel feasible for all students. This may mean that TFs should reschedule their Wednesday sections for another week— maybe during reading period—or even that professors should cancel all sections for the week of Thanksgiving. And, if they choose to hold Wednesday lectures at all, professors should aim to enrich...
...Although neither Spartan corner was particularly well-executed, each managed to find its way into the back...
...Despite the risks, aid organizations expect Pakistan's military ruler General Pervez Musharraf to respond compassionately by opening the border gates?but only after any U.S. attacks begin. Once that happens, the Afghans will be allowed to stay in spartan camps just inside the frontier. Providing for them will be a formidable challenge. Already, officials from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) are scouting out locations within the tribal belt bordering Afghanistan. Pakistan's government estimates a need for about 100 new camps, each able to shelter 10,000 people. "Water is scarce," says UNHCR's spokesman Rupert...