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...It’s a tricky thing to get somebody normal to do crazy things, but I like the contradiction. It’s like the actress in all the Marx Brothers movies. I heard she didn’t get any of the jokes. That comes out in the movies and it worked,” he said...
...Cold War, Russia was taken over by a handful of gangster-oligarchs, who purchased the country’s oil companies from the nation’s insolvent banks. The companies were corrupted by their leaders, who received manufactured goods at below-market prices and sold them at normal rates. Profits were retained outside Russia, and the country was, to say the least, robbed—for as much as $500 billion from 1993 to 1998. These egregious steals cultivated animosity among Russian oligarchs who fought amongst themselves throughout the 1990s...
...approach to Dulles is flown at what aviators call a high angle-of-attack. The plane slows not level like a normal plane, but with its front much higher than its tail. It rumbles when the pilot throttles back the engines and stopping seems to take a bit too long. There are whoops of joy and applause. As I get off, the flight attendants hand me a picture of the Concorde and a certificate of my flight-signed by the pilot...
...forces its inhabitants to get to know each other, according to Currier House Committee President Lacey R. Whitmire ’05, and encourages a tight-knit, somewhat insular community. “To us, it’s weird that people live at the river. Being here is normal,” says Lassiter. “With some teams going up there and being charismatic, people want to transfer to the Quad,” Dingman says. “It happens more than you think...
Chauvière’s grandfather started the company, and his uncle now owns it. “I still visit every time I’m back home, and occasionally pitch in,” says Chauvière. “Nothing was ever normal. It was a strange day if you didn’t have some surreal experience...