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...billion endowment is being used to protect its students from falling foliage is outrageous. We come to Cambridge from all corners of the globe expecting an institution that practices what it preaches: a devotion to excellence and unabashed superiority. If we wanted an acorn-induced concussion or to get wet when it rains, we would have gone to Yale or Princeton. But at Harvard, we expect something more. In fact, we are entitled...
...October. As I’m sure we all noticed, the slant of the wind and rain made it impossible not to get soaked during the long walk from building to building. I see no reason why we had to spend two days sitting in lecture with our wet jeans plastered to our shivering thighs when we have $25.9 billion at our disposal to protect us from inconveniences like the weather. If the United States of America—which doesn’t even have an endowment—can build a shield to protect us from incoming nuclear...
...brick factory near Kabul's airport, nicknamed the Salt Pit by the CIA and the Darkness Prison by inmates. Detainees who have escaped or been released from the prison claim they were kept in cold, dark cells underground, fed once every three days and sometimes chained wet and naked to the wall overnight...
...mercurial, is nothing out of the ordinary. “The weather right now is weird because it is normal for the weather to be weird,” said Rotch Professor of Atmospheric and Environmental Science Steven C. Wofsy. Wofsy said, however, that this autumn has been unusually wet, which is why the leaves changed their colors late or not at all. Right now, autumn is transitioning into winter, accounting for the extremely variable weather, Drag said. “Winter is trying to make a little intrusion, then it gets booted out by the memory of summer...
...wet, smelling of chlorine. It was July 12, 2003, in Washington, a beautiful summer day, and I had just come back from swimming. All morning I had been trying to reach I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby for a cover story about both President George W. Bush's claim that Iraq had sought uranium in Africa and former Ambassador Joseph Wilson's controversial Op-Ed. I had been invited to a fancy Washington country club by friends. Since the club didn't allow the use of cell phones, I kept running from pool to parking lot to try to reach Libby...