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Decorum was shattered at the Arab summit in Doha last week when Izzat Ibrahim, the Iraqi envoy, lashed out at Kuwaiti diplomat Mohammed Sabah al-Salem: "Shut up, you monkey ... Curse be upon your mustache." Those are fighting words in a region where men have been cultivating whiskers since the Ottoman Empire. More than a badge of manhood, the mustache is practically a totem: to seal a deal Iraqis literally swear by them; to compliment a man they say "an eagle could land on his mustache." During the Iraq-Iran war, facial hair was an extension of the military uniform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: November In The Dock | 3/5/2003 | See Source »

...understated storefront on 90 Mt. Auburn St., the Harvard Provision Company (the Pro) has supplied wine and spirits to Harvard undergraduates and Cambridge residents for over 100 years. But on March 14, it will shut its doors forever...

Author: By Jeremy B. Reff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Beloved Wine Shop Closes Doors | 3/4/2003 | See Source »

...Eliot House Committee (HoCo) shut down the House open e-mail list Sunday night after complaints over the use of the word “slut” in a message and uncertainty whether the list should be regulated...

Author: By Katharine A. Kaplan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eliot E-mail List Shut Down | 3/4/2003 | See Source »

Though Cornell pounded Peljto inside and shut out the Ivy’s leading scorer for the game’s first 13 minutes, the Crimson nevertheless burst ahead thanks to its outside play, as Tubridy and sophomore guard Rochelle Bell each hit a pair of zone-busting threes...

Author: By David R. De remer and Christopher Schonberger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: W. Hoops Crowned Ivy Champion | 3/3/2003 | See Source »

...chronicled in this new documentary. After a difficult pre-production period, Gilliam’s film is slapped with a malicious case of Murphy’s Law once it begins shooting. Six days of location work, flash floods, screaming jets and an injured star force the production to shut down, leaving insurance agents to smooth over the chaos and Gilliam fans to ponder what might have been. Jeff Bridges, who starred in Gilliam’s The Fisher King, narrates. Lost in La Mancha screens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Listings, February 28-March 6 | 2/28/2003 | See Source »

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