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...year-long hiatus and will be teaching two introductory classes, “Painting I” and “Color Theory and Practice.” Ellis enjoys teaching introductory classes, he says, because the students are “very fresh. The learning curve is extremely steep, so it’s fun to watch that...
...think that people have taken the dean’s words to heart,” said Uronna N. Gaillard ’04, another member of the election commission. “This year, I think there’s been a pretty steep decline in all extracurricular activities...
...days later, I was scrabbling up a steep scree slope to get a closer look at Koofai Nuamuri, the turquoise Lake of the Virgins and the deepest of the three craters. A goat track of a path wound around its lip. Hundreds of meters down, spread like the icing on some toxic cupcake, lay the green lake, marbled with veins of sulfurous yellow. A weatherworn signpost near the summit proclaimed that the lakes were black, white and red. "That was back in the 1970s," said Dagama, my guide. "They've changed colors many times since then...
...Villagers in Bena will tell you they are Christians, but their faith seems a thin veneer over more ancient rites and beliefs. The steep-pitched thatched roofs of their teakwood huts are topped with the bhaga and ngadhu, totems symbolizing female and male. The former looks like a miniature of the distinctive huts' roofline, the latter a kind of umbrella. "The bhaga is a symbol of a room that holds everything a family owns. It means fertility and hope for an abundant harvest," says Dara. "The ngadhu symbolizes man, who protects the family." A concatenation of jagged megaliths, some more...
...helicopter dropped into the southern end of the steep-sided valley, its rear ramp opening as it drew closer to the snow-patched ground. Perez knew that he had to let go of the baby. "I had to zone him out," he says. "The mission became the only thing on my mind." That's Perez--plainspoken and shaven-headed, a fireplug who wanted so badly to lead troops in combat that he had bailed out of the Army supply corps two years earlier and joined the frontline infantry. Before this day was over, he'd lead more troops through more...