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Bhabha takes over at the Center amidst a larger examination into the role of interdisciplinary study at Harvard. Some Harvard College Curricular Review committees have recommended that the College increase campus opportunities for interdisciplinary work...
...slaughtering shed, the crisscross pattern of green, yellow, henna and black stripes that gave the snake its name glows with vivid life. The men flip the wriggling creature over, exposing its white underbelly. With practiced ease the python is slit open and gutted, then flung into a corner amidst the hoses and plastic buckets full of blood to await skinning, its vibrant colors already fading...
...gave another highly distressing address. During a military parade, he told cheering crowds: “Those who decide to misuse our nation’s honor…should know that the flames of the nation’s wrath are very hot and destructive.” Amidst the parade, banners proclaimed “Israel should be wiped off the map” and “We will trample America under our feet.” These are not the words of the head of a nation interested in peaceful nuclear technology...
...think he was under the influence. The friendship between Pandey and a British officer is invented and improbable, but it's justifiably in the film to prevent it from tipping over into chauvinism. The friendship also reflects the historical truth that not all British soldiers were racists, and that amidst its looting and profiteering, the Company did some good?for instance, by banning sati (wife burning...
...stunned No. 2 seed Rafael Nadal in the third round, dispatched No. 19 Tommy Roberdo in the fourth, and amidst a raucous Queens crowd and a swirl of media pressure, James nearly took out Agassi...