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Over the past five years, Logan, like other U.S. airports, has cultivated the atmosphere of a minimum security prison. The federal government, armed to the teeth with bureaucratic diktats, inefficient PR stunts and illogical over-reactions, has done its best to making flying thoroughly unpleasant...
...near the school's entrance. Rudd's car arrives, the leader emerges, and a greeting party, including local Laboristas, moves his way. Cameras whirr, reporters edge a little closer. As he shakes a teacher's hand, Rudd's face emits a single, dazzling beam: eyes, lips, teeth in luminous concert. Today's contrived event-a grass-roots grip and greet-has become a rapture. Is Rudd for real...
...architect. His early life shows the kind of aimless lateral peregrinations of someone who was in the process of inventing a kind of person that hadn't really existed before. He put in a mediocre stint at Cornell before enlisting in the army in 1942, in the teeth of World War II. Shortly afterward - and within a year of each other - two events occurred that would prove to be formative for Vonnegut. In 1944, on Mother's Day, he came home on leave to discover that his mother, an unsuccessful writer, had committed suicide with sleeping pills. In December...
...prisoners weren't the only ones living in fear. Junior officers barely opened their mouths. Ranking officers like Moyo would not grant me permission to visit the toilet or brush my teeth without approval from their superiors. "I am just a worker," I heard the police-station chief say. "There are people above me." The jailers' anxiety about their bosses made them even more determined to demand respect from their prisoners. Moyo considered my demand for a lawyer insulting. "I am educated," he said. "And you do not cooperate." The walls of his office made clear that the regime...
...report is given the green-light by the CCL and the Dean of the College, it will go to the Faculty Council for final approval. The outcome will be changes to the Handbook that, while symbolically important, have no teeth. Leaving aside the fact that most undergraduates pay as much attention to the Handbook as they do to Undergraduate Council (UC) legislation, implementing the changes would require a degree of cooperation from social clubs that far exceeds what University Hall is likely to get. The groups would be required to “provide the Office of the Dean...