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Twenty or 30 students had flocked to the dimly lit basement for an open meeting organized by the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS). They were eager to discuss what appeared to be an epochal moment in the College’s 370-year history: after many stubborn years as the only school in the Ivy League without a women’s center, Harvard had signaled that it might finally be ready to establish one on campus...
...loved by restaurateurs because they can be repeatedly reheated without breaking down and by food processors because they're resistant to rancidity. They also provide much of the comfort in comfort food, accounting for everything from the flavor of chips to the flaky layering of croissants to the stubborn moistness of muffins...
...ended the Bosnia war ten years ago. Those who've worked with him say he is quick and confident, and adept at using the media to put himself in a stronger position. He also has the capacity, useful when dealing with Pyongyang, of getting through to even the most stubborn?one diplomat jokes that when Hill worked on the Bosnian talks "he had the remarkable ability of being able to get [chief negotiator Richard] Holbrooke to listen." But Hill's real talent may be the trust he can inspire in those who matter. In the Korean talks, he has been...
...parents, too, initially were stubborn. They agreed to leave their house on Galveston Bay, which is just 13 feet above sea level, but planned to ride out the storm at Kerry's house in Houston. Brothers Matt and Michael spent Wednesday at my parents' house, helping move furniture and valuables to the second floor, boarding up windows and clearing the deck of anything that could become a dangerous projectile in 175 mph winds. As a child, I remember hiding out in the bathroom during Hurricane Alicia in 1983. When the eye passed over, we ran outside to a spooky, greenish...
...those too loyal, stubborn or unlucky to find a way out of New Orleans in the days after Katrina hit, nothing could prepare them for what the hurricane left behind. With the city all but emptied, it is no longer the party town of popular imagination. Nor is it the teeming mess of violent desperation it became in the storm's wake. Much of it remains under water, stewing in a putrid mix of chemicals and corpses. But in parts of the city, the floodwaters receded sufficiently last week to reveal something strange and new: part frontier outpost, part fetid...