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...experience recommended in some guidebooks. When I declined my new friends offer, he wondered instead if I might not like to buy some hash. I’d been offered hash in Delhi and Kolkata too, but the frequency of offers in Puri, (including from one especially loony rickshaw-wala), when in fact the sparse Western crowd seemed a bit tame, made me wonder if “high season” had permanently departed the town (or at least its backpacker quarter, the Indian holiday business seemed to be thriving).In Kolkata the scams had carried their own character?...

Author: By Max J Kornblith, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In a Puri State of Mind | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

Founded in 1967 by chemist Rudolf Hauschka and aesthetician Elisabeth Sigmund, the beauty company's lab, WALA Heilmittel is in Erfelden, Germany. WALA stands for Warmth-Ash-Light-Ash, representing the rhythmical, water-based extraction process used after plants are harvested by hand at sunrise?when the oils are most concentrated?yielding bath oils, skin treatments and cosmetics without alcohol or preservatives. "Rather than suppressing one symptom like dryness or oiliness, we activate the skin's ability to heal itself," says Kurz, whose book, Awakening Beauty, will be published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not Your Average Night Cream | 4/20/2006 | See Source »

Richard A. Dey Jr. '73 of Mather House and Morristown, N.J., Poetry Board Editor: Alice C. van Buren '74 of Dunster House and Princeton, N.J., Prose Board Editor; Brian Bohn '74 of North House and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Art Editor; Glenn M. Schwetz '73 of Eliot House and Wala Wala, Wash., Dionysus; A. Peter Fabry of Eliot House and Hoboken, N.J., Graduate Editor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Advocate Elects Officers | 12/10/1971 | See Source »

...Paris, Death stalked and trapped, after an operation,* His Highness Lieutenant General Mukhtar-ul-Mulk Azimul-Iktidar Rafiush Shan Wala Shikoh Mohtasham-i-Dauran Umdat-ul-Umara Maharajadhiraja Alijah Hisam-us-Saltanat Maharaja Sir Madho Rao Scindhia Bahadur Srinath Mansur-i-Za-an Fidvi-i-Hazrat-i-Malika-i-Muazzam-i-Rafi-ud-Darja-i-Inglistan, G. C. S. I., G. C. V. O., G. B. E.?otherwise the Maharaja of Gwalior and titles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cremated | 6/15/1925 | See Source »

...niche for themselves in the dull trades of "butcher, baker, and candlestick maker". It is India, however, which lays claim to the most unusual callings-at least if one may judge from a Lucknow dispatch, which describes the work of the Monkey Deporter, the Corpse Fender, and the Shahbash-Wala...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRICKS OF THE TRADES | 5/2/1923 | See Source »

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