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...just come to the 84th retelling of the failed riding demonstration she’d done for Gordon (“the brass quintet should mostly heal, but our horse will never go near another trombone”) when she suddenly shut up. Her violent stare moved the rest of us to turn and gape.“Mr. Moore, ’scuse me,” said Ezekiel, “just wanted to let you know I put away the buggy without too much problems. It’s up on Wimbley Street...
...history. Meet “Mistress Victoria Chi,” a dominatrix who leaves her S&M dungeon after she falls for a client mid-whip. She shies from the camera, her black hair brushed over one eye. By her side, “Violette Nozieres” stares wistfully at the ground. Her head is decorated with a black satin band, her face delicately concealed by a piece of lace. The accompanying biography explains Violette’s tragic life: raped by her father in her teens, she was sentenced to death for killing him several years later...
...intensity with which the spiffily attired investment brokers of the African Banking Corp. stare at their computer screens is misleading. A closer look reveals that they're either fiddling with iTunes or playing solitaire. Still, their boss, Seti Shumba, who moonlights as chairman of the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange, offers them smiles and pats on the back - he's just glad they showed up to work...
...whole provides visitors with a new sort of intellectual engagement distinct from lectures and paper writing, asking students to think beyond their concentration or what they’ve come to regard as the norm at Harvard.Upon opening the heavy door to the Sert Gallery, viewers could stare into the face of Dorothy L. McLeod ’12, standing in her dorm room with a shadow on her face. The photograph entitled “The Skies are Different Here,” by Alissa C. Costello ’12, was part of a larger, semester-long project...
Judith R. Dortz, a retired administrator who has proctored Harvard exams for several semesters, said that during the three-hour finals, “you can only sit and stare at a wall for so long.” She admitted to glancing at exams before passing them out or working on a crossword puzzle occasionally during her breaks to avoid boredom...