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...build-up of culinary debris is the latest culprit in dining hall closings, as the Eliot House dining hall shut its doors in the middle of lunch yesterday, forcing students to relocate to neighboring Kirkland House for the remainder of the afternoon. Eliot and Kirkland Dining Halls’ Customer Service Manager Stephen J. Mills said that as soon as staff found the sink clogged with scraps of food and plastic wrapping, a plumbing company was called. Besides the dishwashing area, no other parts of the dining hall were affected. Many students said their afternoons were not disrupted...
...TIME: So is nationalism - rather than its political system, or the build-up of its military, or the destabilizing role the Chinese Communist Party once played in Southeast Asia - the main reason behind the suspicion about China? LEE: The discomfort [with China] is primarily that it is becoming a very powerful country and that it's not averse to making its power felt. For instance, when we did not sufficiently make amends for having visited Taiwan, they just froze all economic ties at the official level. We are a very small part of their economy, but they are a significant...
...recent hit singles. Both parties seemed much more comfortable once the band brooded into the well-delivered “The Beast and Dragon Adored,” the opening song on “Fiction” and a prime example of the band’s tense build-up and singer Britt Daniel’s dynamic range and suppressed lyrical sensuality. The audience didn’t have to wait too long to get what they wanted, however, and when the climax finally came, Daniel and company made it last for the rest of the night...
...Rice insisted on visiting Mosul after receiving a report that it may have turned the corner, thanks to a combination of aggressive action by two American brigades posted in the city, a massive build-up of trained Iraqi policemen, who now number 15,000 for a city of around 1.4 million, and Sunni leaders who have been denouncing the insurgency and embracing the political process...
...disappointing that output growth is likely to be starting with a "2 or 3 rather than 3 or 4" for some time and inflation will be higher. "There comes a time," Macfarlane said, "when we have to expect a moderation in growth in order to prevent the build-up in the sort of imbalances that have got us into trouble in the past...