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...Jack the Ripper-themed shindig. Partygoers had difficulty holding onto their cigarettes and detached sense of irony while grinding to “Gasolina” and wearing blood-stained Victorian garb. Get It Right, Get It Tight knew how to get it moist—the cold weather could do nothing to temper the sweaty heat going on in Kirkland B. The BGLTSA party in the Lowell Grill had a lovely selection of alcohol and an even greater quantity of PDA (Public Displays...
Avalanches, high altitutude and bad weather make the Himalayas a dangerous place for anyone. But for Tibetan refugees attempting to flee their Chinese-occupied homeland, the mountains can be even more perilous. On the morning of Sept. 30, more than 100 international climbers at a base camp on Cho Oyu, the world's sixth highest mountain, watched as border guards from the Chinese People's Armed Police opened fire on a group of several dozen Tibetans ascending the 5,700m Nangpa La, a pass linking China and Nepal. "At first I was thinking it was simply warning shots," says...
...soft-sided bags, opt for materials like ballistic or Cordura nylons, which stand up to slashing and tearing better than leather or canvas. They also provide more protection from weather. The REI Tech Beast ($215) is made of abrasion-, moisture- and tear-resistant ballistic nylon, and the wear points are reinforced with Hypalon patches to better bear rough-and-tumble conditions. The luxe new Tourbach line from Victorinox Swiss Army ($260-$700) boasts a Swiss-engineered fabric called Performax that is tearproof and grime and water repellent...
...long ago, in a land far, far away… The Harvard men’s water polo team traveled coast-to-coast yesterday, trading the shifty New England weather for the warm southern California coast. This was no vacation, however; the Crimson players were on official business. Harvard faced the University of La Verne in a tightly contested match-up. A full 31 minutes of play could not separate the two teams. With only seconds left on the clock, the game-winner finally came—for ULV— dropping the Crimson, 8-7. For the last...
Neither cold weather nor heavy rain could stop thousands upon thousands of people grimly walking to the funeral hall of the Troyekurovskoye cemetery on a distant edge of Moscow, to pay their last respects to journalist Anna Politkovskaya, assassinated last Saturday...