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...fund drive to complete the construction of Currier House. The Currier House shield also discreetly refers to the Currier family. The term “currier” in French describes people who used a curved knife with the sharp edge on the inside to scrape the hair off animal hides to prepare leather for tanning. At either ends of the blade were wooden handles; such knives are suggested by the scallop patterns in the horizontal black bar. The symbolism of the hide scraping is multi-layered, for it can also suggest that education is “a sort...
...Staring through binoculars at the headlights cresting the pass, Allah Mahmad can hardly contain his frustration. "If the Americans hit the pass now, they'd cream the bastards," he mutters. "All the bloody terrorists move out of Kabul at night. Hitting the city isn't touching a hair on their heads...
...wear a hat,” she said. “It was unavoidable. I felt like I was getting weird looks from professors for wearing it in class, but I thought my [dirty] hair would have been more disrespectful to the professor...
...Berg’s doors were closed, I had an equally distracting food source in the sketchy, slightly smelly, super qwikie-mart with its pre-wrapped “meat” sandwiches, continually empty, greasy “bakery-fresh” shelf and checkout guy whose hair color changed with the days of the week. Silly freshman Antoinette, if only I could talk to her, keep her from the nightly trips to Twinkie central! The freshman 15, remember the freshman...
...Tension is high in Peshawar as bombing raids inside Afghanistan continue. Anti-American sentiment permeates the streets and alleys. My barber whispered to me that he would prefer to come by my office to cut my hair during these next few months, or at least until things calm down a bit more. He did not want me to risk walking down the alley to his barbershop. I agreed, and expressed my concern for him and his family...