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...quiet village of Khajuraho. Entrance to the 16-hectare archaeological park, where most of the elaborately carved sandstone temples are found, costs $10. All the temples feature friezes of intricately detailed aspects of daily life. Warriors prepare for battle, musicians tune their instruments and a dancer plucks a thorn from her foot. But it's the sex that put the temples on the tourist maps. Buxom apsaras, or celestial maidens, coyly cavort around the corners of each temple, flaunting their haunches, while meter-tall couples demonstrate their sexual prowess...
...highest note possible, winning the ECAC Championships in October. After defeating both George Washington and Cornell, 7-0, Harvard dropped only one point to Yale in a 6-1 victory before trouncing Penn, 7-0, in the finals. Little did Harvard know that Penn would be the thorn in the Crimson’s side at year?...
...sovereignty. Britain has known this all along. With Foreign Secretary Jack Straw's continued promises to put this issue to a vote, skeptics wonder whether a settlement, then rejection of a settlement, has been London's short-term plan all along. Even if it falls short of removing a thorn in Anglo-Spanish relations, Britain would fulfill its duties, first to Spain and the E.U. ("We tried"), and secondly to Gibraltar ("We kept our promise...
Meagher was now on the alert and started checking out cautionary websites to which his roommate directed him. He continued to meet with Zilman and Hrnicek, who gave him assorted religious books to read, but he was more skeptical. “Now I was being a proverbial thorn,” he says. When he asked his friends what would be required of him if he joined the church, “They danced around [the answer] quite...
...relations are very cordial. When they say that I've been a thorn in their side, it might be nice for them to be specific. I campaigned on campaign finance reform. That was pretty well known. I campaigned on the patients' bill of rights. We had our differences, well articulated and ventilated during the primary...