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...student curator, called Digging Veritas “the beginning of a lot of opportunities for students.” The digs began in 2005 with the help of faculty in the anthropology department and the Harvard University Native American Program to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the Indian College, an oft-neglected component of Harvard’s earliest campus. The college, which was located near where Matthews Hall now stands, was intended to encourage Native youth in the pursuit of “knowledge and godliness,” as Harvard’s first charter instructed...
...Great Game, the British fought there to prevent the Russians from invading India. In the 1980s, Americans equipped mujahedin to bleed the Soviet Union dry. In the civil war following the 1989 Soviet withdrawal, Pakistan backed the Taliban, a fundamentalist faction fostered in its own religious seminaries, to counter Indian influence in the rival Northern Alliance. When the Taliban captured Kabul in 1994, Pakistan was one of only three nations to recognize their government. The Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI), Pakistan's clandestine services, then sent militants hardened in the Soviet war to Indian-administered Kashmir in order to wage...
...state-subsidized "digester," a kind of metal stomach that breaks down the matter and releases methane gas which is trapped for reuse. In the French city of Lille, a small fleet of ten buses are also using methane, gleaned from the city's poop. And in some Indian villages, simple latrines have been built that separate waste and use it to produce compost and fertilizer at a per capita cost infinitesimally lower than any waste management budget in the West...
...biggest problems is the way teams are funded. The bulk of the resources for top performers comes from major carmakers. BMW, for instance, contributed an estimated $200 million to its team this year, nearly six times the sum invested by Indian Vijay Mallya, the billionaire owner of Fisichella's Force India. Small teams struggle to make up the difference through sponsorship or their share of the sport's commercial rights...
...whom extreme sexual tension causes many an awkward moment. They live together in a dingy apartment, where the only source of heat is an ignited trashcan that constantly crackles in the background. Zack works in the local coffee shop, a warmly lit hub run by an old Indian man who speaks as eloquently as his colleagues, telling Rogan and his associate Delaney (Craig Robinson), “I hate both of you ebony and ivory fuckers.” The film begins with Zack and Miri’s 10-year high school reunion. This uncreative and unfulfilling premise?...