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...What he does know is that he feels a rush in the black suit he never got in the red one. Problem is, Peter is still enough of a nice kid that he can't quite pull off the attendant arrogance. When he combs his hair forward, he's still a dweeb, not a dude. When he tells a villain, "I guess you haven't heard I'm the sheriff round these parts," he's still geeky-gawky, closer to John Mayer than to John Wayne. His attempt at gangsta swagger doesn't cut it either. There's a weird...
...While passengers are frustrated, so are airlines, which are starting to lose money despite brisk demand. The problem? Air travel has blossomed so quickly in India that the country's superannuated airports have been overwhelmed. After the government opened India's skies to greater competition four years ago, the annual number of domestic and international air passengers has nearly doubled from 48.8 million in the year ended March 31, 2004, to 95 million. Meanwhile nine private airlines have started up in recent years. Some, such as Kingfisher Airlines, are full service, but most are low-cost carriers that have wooed...
...head scarves!" shouted Ezgi Kilic, 21, a member of Bosphorus University's college basketball team, who turned out to demonstrate wearing navy and white tracksuit pants and Ray-Bans. Her teammate, Burcu Asli, waving a small Turkish flag, agreed: "We don't have a problem with head scarves. But it's not right that the President's wife should wear one. This isn't political. We just don't want to see Turkey becoming another Iran...
...describe her for the first time, critics and admirers alike pulled from a surprisingly similar word-bank. These words, in various guises and combinations, accompanied the announcement of Drew G. Faust as Harvard University’s 28th president. The diction formed not only a picture but a problem, as commentators and the national media raised questions as to whether the search committee had focused on gender, a “feminist bent,” at the expense of experience. Elizabeth Warren would like to add another description to that mix. In a Feb. 12 article, the Gottlieb professor...
Finally, the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub has solved an age-old problem: where’s a senior to get a drink in this place? Last Friday, hundreds of students flooded the Queen’s Head Pub to partake in the first ever “Upper Hall.” According to Loker Commons Project Manager, Zachary A Corker ’04, the term “Hall” alludes to social gatherings at the Oxbridge Universities that we Harvard students unceremoniously call a dinner or drink. Now, Harvard has its own distinct...