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...Anthropology Professor Richard Wrangham and primatologist Elisabeth Ross have made enough of a mark to be beloved by residents. At House Masters' open houses, you're likely to catch Wrangham chatting about current events or giving a group of students an animated primer on animal behavior. The couple is wont to invite distinguished speakers, host impromptu events, and--only when asked--regale you with tales from their years in Uganda. If the Porters are the parents you never had, Ross and Wrangham are your eccentric, worldly, loquacious aunt and uncle. Resident Dean Katherine Stanton also ranks high, hosting wine...
...Vaillancourt, as she is wont to do, took control of the game. With two beautiful goals (that you can see for yourself at thecrimson.com!) in the opening ten minutes, she ensured that her team dictated the pace of the game right from the beginning...
...President Hugo Chavez failed in his bid at ending presidential term limits, Morales agreed to keep Bolivia's re-election laws as is. He is therefore able to compete in this December's Presidential elections for one more five-year term - but no more. That doesn't mean he wont try "to pull a Chavez," noted Santa Cruz resident Alberto Montero last week, referring to the Venezuelan's attempt to pass a separate referendum on indefinite re-election after Venezuela's new constitution was approved...
...lobby of Jardine House, which appears in the series as Struan & Co.'s headquarters. Partake of shark-fin banquets and black-tie suppers of foie gras and lobster. Travel only by limousine, yacht and helicopter. As you conduct this princely progress, adorn your speech - as the characters are all wont to do, even if nobody in Hong Kong ever does - with copious references to "joss" (luck, from the Portuguese deus, or "god"), face (and the importance of), high finance and underworld figures with piratical names (Four-Finger Wu, Smallpox Kin). Brosnan is also liable to utter startling ejaculations that...
...strips of duct tape, and, concluding that she had accomplished her goal with great flair and even greater bravery, she called it a night.If Lily’s story sounds familiar, even cheesy, well, it should: her narrative is so familiar that even the least jaded among us are wont to feel a bit of schadenfreude when they pass the Lilys of their towns sporting side-swept bangs and Dashboard Confessional hoodies. In America, at least, the concept of rebellion as inevitable is not experienced by most as a phenomenon, but rather as a cliché. This practice of outwardly...