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...most powerful man in Iraq doesn't go out much. As an estimated 100,000 of his followers poured into the streets of Baghdad last week to demand direct elections in Iraq, Grand Ayatullah Ali Sistani stayed out of sight, holed up in the same nondescript white-walled compound on an alley off the Street of the Messenger in Najaf where he was kept under house arrest during the rule of Saddam Hussein. A crowd of followers seeking his counsel gathered outside. Some were allowed to enter; others were told by the guards to submit their questions in writing...
...white, wood frame building with crimson shutters at 5 Linden St. is fairly nondescript. Only a small white sign that reads “Bureau of Study Counsel” Out of 30 students interviewed in Adams Dining Hall one night last week, only two knew that the bureau provided any kind of counseling for mental health issues. Some knew it provided academic tutoring. Most had no idea what the bureau...
Back then, the self-described “straight-edged” Fitzpatrick was—like all rookies—pretty nondescript in practice, leaving the coaching staff undecided as to his potential...
...also starting to gravitate around Giampaolo Maffini, chef at the Harbour Grill, tel: (852) 2996 8433?a deceptively bland name for an astonishing restaurant in the mid-range Harbour Plaza Hotel in Hung Hom. Hong Kong's chattering classes might never summon up the will to go to this nondescript district of tower blocks and train lines?more fool them, for Maffini's talent is a rare one. His soups (oyster with Pernod; cauliflower with caviar) are masterful and original; the racks of lamb are so good they defy description; and his duck with Savoy cabbage is simply brilliant...
...least give the readers a chance to make their own judgments. Those classical listeners who tire of WCRB’s predictable warhorses will enjoy the classical department’s policy of never repeating the same piece in a year; rock listeners who dislike today’s nondescript alternative sound can find a real alternative in the underground scene covered by WHRB programming. Harvard football games, news reports, black urban contemporary music, blues, jazz and opera also all abound on WHRB...