Word: stones
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...people of diverse backgrounds. Instead, the failure of the University's recent policy lies in the superficial, check-list definition of diversity and its rash attack on house character that made undergraduate house life worthwhile. Character is the heart of the houses; without it, they are but brick and stone...
Usually omitted from most staged versions of the play, but included in this production, is the central scene in which Jack dreams that he is in Hell, recast as the famous Don Juan, with Ann as Dona Ana, Ramsden as the stone statue of Ana's father, and Mendoza as the Devil himself. But this Hell is the refuge of people bored by Heaven, such as the Statue; the Devil is an amiable aesthete with a nihilistic view of man's destiny; and Don Juan himself is a man bored by the mindless hedonism of Hell and consumed with...
...boss, but then Duffy has never been a stickler for convention. Working first in TIME's Washington bureau as Pentagon correspondent, then as a political reporter covering both the Bush and Clinton presidencies, Duffy developed a reputation as a maverick with a knack for finding the unturned stone in even the most thoroughly trodden beat--most notably in 1986, when he broke the details of a top-secret U.S. attack on Libya 36 hours before the strike occurred. He's also adept at turning a story's thesis on its head, if that's what the facts demand. "Duffy...
...skis on Lake Pipen in Minnesota. In 1985 a surfer aptly named Tony Finn developed a hybrid between a water ski and a surfboard called the Skurfer. But that skiboard was so narrow and buoyant that only the most experienced skiers could work it. Before skiboarding sank like a stone, water-ski manufacturer Herb O'Brien came up with the Hyperlite, a carbon-graphite board of neutral buoyancy with large dimples on the bottom (phasers, to those in the know) that gave it a looser feel and made for softer landings from wake jumps. Skiboarders became wakeboarders, and the sport...
...international space station. But TIME's Jeffrey Kluger reports that such difficulties are to be expected from an aging and underfunded space program. "The lack of funding has led to a weaker infrastructure in which the Mir used to be the crown jewel. Now it's the only stone left...