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Wedged between the Cambridge Common, the Radcliffe Quadrangle and the Law School is a short residential street lined with trees--the sort of place where children ride big wheels and parents rake the lawns on Saturday afternoons...
...hate the regime also lament their inability to change it. "We are rubbish," says a student in Mandalay. "Our tradition and our religion prevent us from getting things done," says a Rangoon intellectual. The pacific teachings of Theravada Buddhism do not, for example, allow self- immolation of the sort practiced by protesting Vietnamese monks in the 1960s...
...players buy in for an entry fee and then risk no further money. He knew his cards, and he won some and lost some. But card sense is the lesser part of poker, which is a game of money management at its middle levels, and of character -- an odd sort of frontier monasticism might describe it -- at the very top. The author may have sensed that he was not suited to it when he hesitated to pay a $2,500 tournament buy- in because his children's school fees were...
...When I got here, lots and lots of people started getting noserings and then it was trendy and sort of annoying," Holdt said. "I feel like they've become much more common in the last year...
...Yeah, it kind of hurt." she says. "I got sort of nauseous and dizzy...