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Five villagers agreed to do the job. Using a tangan, a crude shovel with a specially curved blade and an extra-long handle, they probed deep into the earth around the mound, extracting core samples and examining the dirt for indicators such as traces of charcoal, which the ancients packed around tombs to ward off humidity. Locating a likely spot, the villagers lighted the fuse on a 110-lb. lump of homemade dynamite and blew a hole in the middle of a wheat field. Having blasted their way to a spot near the top of the tomb, they donned...
With or without girls, his attention never strays far from academics for long, as Veljkovik claims that his single biggest priority is earning his undergraduate diploma. In fact, he has been especially diligent in selecting courses for the fall semester, one of which is the popular Core, Lit and Arts B-21, “Images of Alexander the Great.” Naturally, the grinning Macedonian first-year cites an interest in the history of his homeland as a reason for enrolling in the class, but his major incentive comes from another well-worn Harvard resource. Says Veljkovik...
While there is a fair amount of turnover from semester to semester, the core group of callers remains constant enough that an undeniable Phonathon subculture develops each year. We have our own semi-retired slogan (“Don’t call us. We’ll call you!”); we have our own incomprehensible in-jokes (two years ago it was considered uproariously funny when someone suggested making t-shirts that read, “We put the fun in Radfuncliffe”); we even have our own dialect (among other additions to the English language...
...Some of the issues we know we’re going to try to put forth to the CUE are the issue of reducing class size, also offering more classes within the Core and improving advising for upperclassmen,” she said...
...military confrontation. Instead, China, South Korea and Russia have urged the U.S. to show greater flexibility on the question of security guarantees, to allow for the brokering of a classic diplomatic deal that would allow all sides to step back from the path of confrontation while proclaiming their core demands have been...