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...cardinal directions and fastened it to the mortar of the courtyard’s retaining wall with some ad-hoc combination of wood chips, nails and twist-e-ties. Incidentally, due to some quirk of 1970s architecture, Currier House carries its own magnetic charge, rendering a compass useless (though still cool-looking) and further complicating my project...
...home. It becomes tougher still when the White House asks Congress for another $87 billion and is told that $42 billion has to be rustled up by other countries. Nor is it easy to wake up to the fact that ultrasmart weapons, though wonderful for winning wars, are useless against Baathist thugs and water shortages. To win the peace, legitimacy is as vital as physical reconstruction. And both require help from the rest of the world. The lesson for America is harsh but essential: Even the mightiest nation on earth can't go it alone. The Europeans: they have been...
...taken to spreading Farmer’s gospel outside of any promotion for his book, “clearing whole rooms at parties boring people telling them about Haiti.” And acknowledging that his continued presence in Cange would be “worse than useless,” Kidder says he wants to convince as many people as he can to join him in donating money...
When it comes time to announce the top five, neither Redd nor Gray make it, to the dismay of many in the audience. It is useless to speculate on what might have caused them to be cut. Is it too much hype, too much Harvard? Was it that dress...
When I put my fire irons, poker, brush and screen into storage in late May, I had no idea that they would be totally useless this fall. In his final administrative days, former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 robbed us of the privilege to build a cozy wood fire on a cold winter evening...