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...compromise between Annen-burglars and HUDS regarding food removal could be reached if the university gave every student a medium, reusable plastic container with the approximate food capacity of a single plate at the beginning of the year. The container could be called EAT, Exiting Annenberg Tupperware, and every freshman would be encouraged to only take food out of Annenberg...
Shifting shadows welcome the viewer to “The Glass Menagerie,” Tennessee Williams’ 1944 play about family and failure. Hung from the ceiling of the Loeb Experimental Theater, sewn plastic figures glisten against thick sheets of cloth. As the audience enters, the wonderful and mysterious sculpture—designed by Sara J. Stern ’12—sways and sighs. It looms over the neat and trim set and veils it with a hesitating shade...
...into a line of tanks. "It's a parade!" says my mother gaily, hoping we children won't notice that the soldiers have their guns cocked. That night, as Soviet-made MiGs strafe the city, our gardener and cleaner Mir Ali patrols the garden with an ax and a plastic baseball bat. The next day, the radio proclaims the birth of the People's Republic of Afghanistan. Tanks are wreathed in flowers, "doubtless following the prescription of some revolutionary handbook," my father writes home. The portrait painter down the street begins churning out likenesses of Afghanistan's new President, Marxist...
...vibrant color of Haitian food markets has begun to compete with the gray ocean of crushed concrete. But so far only about a quarter of the 1.2 million Haitians who lost homes have been given tents (which relief agencies argue are scarce right now on the global market) or plastic sheeting (which those agencies now say is more practical than tents). Sanitation is even scarcer, causing health officials to raise dire warnings about widespread disease. Amid increasing Haitian anger and desperation, the Washington Post reported last week that the head of the U.N.'s Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs...
...Virginia room, the low roar of which could easily be heard from the corridor. There was a "Smoke Out the Terrorists" hookah party at Queen's Café in Adams Morgan, where 18-year-olds coughed their way through apple tobacco and lamented Washington's 5-cent tax on plastic bags. Down the street, things got rowdier at the District, where the D.C. chapter of the College Republicans hosted a welcome party. "Liberty is contagious," said an underage drinker - you could tell by the giant X's drawn on their hands - between shots of Southern Comfort. "Any time there...