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Nicholas Daniloff ’53 may be enjoying his current position as director of the Northeastern University School of Journalism, but the seasoned journalist hasn’t always been nestled in the Ivory Tower: while reporting in Soviet Russia, Daniloff was imprisoned by the KGB. FM sat down to ask the veteran reporter 15 Questions about Final Clubs, Russian bureaucracy and KGB contacts...
...girls were no longer into pitching tents. Now they prefer "yurts," circular huts modeled after the homes of Central Asian nomads - but featuring Western amenities like electricity and handicap accessibility. "These are 21st Century girls," says Connell. "They, at the very least, want to be near a cell phone tower...
...college-entrance exams before the quake struck. Eventually, I left to walk through the wreckage of Hanwang. Unclaimed bodies lay under bloody sheets. A 20-ft.-tall (6 m) statue of a rider on horseback had been decapitated by the violent shaking. The hands of a clock in a tower in the town square were stuck at 2:28 p.m. When I returned to where Deng was waiting, two covered corpses were lying outside the massage parlor. A family member identified Deng's mother. A soldier yelled at a dog that sniffed at the bodies. Deng called me over...
...short we didn’t learn much from our trip to Yale, but we know what to expect from these Yalies. They’re going to be different from you. I mean, almost as different as Leverett Tower G from Leverett Tower H. They’ll be wearing patterned scarves instead of solid colors and talking about how they study esoteric subjects like “economics” and “government.” Oh, and they’ll be drinking INFANT blood...
Botanical Booty Think of it as the beauty equivalent of Russian nesting dolls. The Evolu Travel Tower is a group of essential potions?cleanser, eye gel, day and night moisturizers, a postflight mask and hand cream?that are stacked together in a single vertical package. Endlessly refillable, the stack comprises six 10-ml (0.34 oz.) compartments, which lands it well below airlines' 100-ml (3 oz.) limit for carry-on cosmetics. The tower comes with a spare lid, so the pots can be transported as one or in sets, a true sign of skin-care glasnost. www.evolu.com