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...Adams House has a very lively and creative spirit that doesn't come from the past, but from the attitude that Sean and Judy Palfrey instill today," said Matthew J. Corriel '05, an Adams House resident tutor...
...plague, going red was a decision most of the population made - except for people like Edward, who was vamped by his brother. So he's ripe for being tapped by some renegade humans led by Elvis Cormac (Willem Dafoe) and his henchwoman Audrey (Claudia Karvan). In the spirit of modern sci-fi movie thrillers like Avatar and District 9, the insider goes outside to join forces with the aliens. Becoming human is a painful process - exposure to sunlight in brief, sharp blasts - but for Edward, it's a chance at redemption. Vampires live forever, but on other people's blood...
...desiccated Pakistan that General Zia [ul-Haq] had tried to ram down our throats." Many of the artists in the book, most of whom are in their 30s and 40s, have trained or taught (sometimes both) at the school. Among them is Zahoor ul Akhlaq, a guiding spirit whose tortured acrylic A Visit to the Inner Sanctum 4 recalls the wide, flat planes of Matisse and Rothko as well as the framed spatial arrangements of Mughal illuminated manuscripts...
...staff members told us that they certainly plan to keep the original spirit of the books alive...
Russia has made an unofficial New Year's resolution: this year, it's time to cut down on the booze. On Jan. 1, the Kremlin adopted new minimum-price standards for vodka that will nearly double the cost of a half-liter bottle of the national spirit, from $1.69 to $3. The move, part of President Dmitri Medvedev's anti-alcoholism campaign, is designed to curb Russians' excessive drinking. With a per capita alcohol consumption twice as high as that of the U.S. and an active underground market for homemade alcohol (known as samogon), Russians aren't about to give...