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...attempting to neutralize the smell. Heather S. Horn ’08 said she witnessed the clean-up process. “They were pumping a lot of stuff out of there into a vacuum truck,” Horn said. “It was this yellow van...it looked really sketchy.” Students said the deodorizer was only a small improvement. “They covered it with a really strong floral powder,” Horn said. “It was like a sickly sweet rotting smell.” She added that...
...These elections have not lived up to the hopes and expectations of the Nigerian people and the process cannot be considered to have been credible," said Max van den Berg, chief election monitor for the European Union. A local alliance of civil society observers called for the cancellation of Sunday's vote. "The election was a charade," they declared. "A democratic arrangement founded on such fraud can have no legitimacy." Even outgoing President Olesegun Obasanjo, who nominated Yar'Adua as his successor, admitted: "Our elections could not have been said to have been perfect...
...apparently couldn’t resist the juxtaposition of Mercer’s lines “Been alone since you were 21 / You haven’t laughed since January” with a shot of keyboardist Marty Crandall in a pine tree costume diving into a moving van filled with stolen balloons. The band takes their contraband to an idyllic field where they release the orange balloons that match their jumpsuits—shallowly symbolic, but forgivable. The imprisoned balloons are gleefully liberated into the air just as Mercer sings “Give me your hand...
...especially since the poorest people of the world will suffer most. Surely a Plan B is needed. Now it is time for the big thinkers' geo-engineering proposals to be brought into the frame, not to substitute for carbon dioxide reductions but to run in parallel with them. Steve van Hagen, ST VIGOR DES MONTS, FRANCE...
...sale. Ravestijn, a renowned antiques dealer for over 20 years, gave up her city shop when it became tiresome not being able to see the treasures she had collected. Now they are grouped like exquisite Dutch Old Master still lifes in this home where she and her partner, Narda van't Veer, one of Holland's leading photo agents, live and work (they lease out the land for others to farm). "I like it this way, although the chandelier should be bigger," says Ravestijn, gesturing upwards. A larger one was taken down and sold the day before...