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...move to a mountainside town. Passing through a tunnel, they arrive in a strange land where a spell turns the parents into pigs. That leaves their 10-year-old daughter, Chihiro, to save them. Nothing is as it seems here?a boy turns into a flying dragon, a paper bird into a witch, a sludge-covered bathhouse customer into a river god. But Chihiro learns the value of courage and determination and is transformed from a petulant coward into a triumphant heroine...
FM’s gluttonous research team broke tradition this week. In addition to indulging in Newbury Street’s pricey drinky-drinks and calorie-rich desserts, we sought misadventure on a renovated Blue Bird school bus. The drizzling rain and cool temperature of the evening made the Harvard shuttle more appealing than usual: its two heaters could warm our chilled toes as we eavesdropped on your conversations...
...woven screen and rope will be hung. This nest will contain large-scale models of objects found in homes, such as watches, keys, a phone and a chair, that will cast shadows on the ground below. “Imagine what would happen if a giant bird went through Harvard Square and gathered up things from people’s houses and put them in a nest, and then you’ll have the idea of the sculpture,” explains Bastian...
...lawyer and a homemaker. As a kid, his father says, he liked to play chess and disliked violent games. He was a scrawny youth--only 5 ft. 7 in. and until recently quite thin. (His dad called him "Bolbol," Arabic slang for a little singing bird.) Atta seemed overshadowed by his two sisters, who rose to become a zoology professor and a medical doctor. Atta graduated from Cairo University with a degree in architectural engineering and was an average student, according to his peers...
...seemed overshadowed by his lawyer father and the academic success of his two elder sisters, one who lectured at Cairo University and the other who became a doctor. A quiet only son who was strongly attached to his mother, Atta's father nicknamed him "Bolbol" - Arabic for a little bird. Mohammed El Amir recalls his son as a timid boy who avoided fights or squabbles between friends. "In his behavior, my son was almost like an angel," he said. "He is like a virgin girl in his politeness and shyness. Growing up he never got into mischief, he was soft...