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When Pascal Khoo Thwe was a baby, his grandmother spat three times on his head while muttering tribal incantations to protect him "from evil people and all misfortune." With all respect to the Padaung people of remotest Burma, the spit-and-spell routine didn't do much good. Poverty, dictatorship, sickness, war: Khoo Thwe had to overcome all manner of evils before finally escaping Burma to study at the University of Cambridge?the first Padaung tribesman to do so. Khoo Thwe tells the story of this escape in From the Land of Green Ghosts (Harper Collins; 304 pages), a memoir...
...Spat Heard ’Round The World
...professors said they felt the spat with West should lead Summers to change his ways...
Though he has publicly expressed his support for the department countless times since his spat with West became public, Summers told the Chronicle of Higher Education earlier this year that the department should expect “less of an open checkbook from my administration than the previous...
According to Fox, one student even spat on him when he arrived at Currier House to discuss the proposal...