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Called “Conflict in the Caucasus: The Georgian Conflict and the Resurgence of Russia,” the speakers’ discussion was sponsored by Harvard International Relations on Campus and took place in the Adams upper common room to an audience of 25 students...
...save, something the current generation does not do. Now Americans generally believe they are entitled to whatever they want without regard to whether they can afford it. The list of what we have come to consider necessities would stun those from most other parts of the world. Oren Spiegler, UPPER ST. CLAIR...
...studies concentrator concluded that an increasing “gap between cops on the street and cops in the office” has put police in states such as Argentina and Brazil out of the reach of governmental control. Although he criticized the systematic violence occurring underthe direction of upper-level police officials, Sheffield acknowledged that most police violence resulted from misconduct by individual officers. Sheffield ended his presentation by encouraging Harvard students to join Proyecto Espartaco, a “wiki for human rights” he has been working on to help Latin American human rights groups share...
Then he saw The Stable Boy smoldering at him from inside a gilded frame on the Uffizi wall. Those eyes, the cruel twist of his upper lip, the falling curls of hair, the luminous skin, the ... the ... well, that, in all its bold tumescence. It was surely him. He had seen the waves of shock pass through Felicity’s body when she glimpsed the painting, and then he had seen the painted Stable Boy take possession of his living wife all over again...
...those found in plants of the mustard family. Sensitivity to PROP is a genetically determined trait. For nontasters like me, a slip of paper soaked in PROP tastes like, well, soggy paper, and for about half the population, it is faintly bitter. The remaining 25% of the population, the upper echelon of tasters, experiences the strip as unmistakably, repulsively bitter. Believe me, I practically chewed on that paper hoping that it would start tasting like something. But was I wrong to wish I could taste more?“Supertasters” are those who experience heightened sensations from food...