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...Uday's sprawling al-Abit palace on the banks of the Tigris, U.S. soldiers are sorting through rubble, putting together matching pairs of Uday's many shoes to give to Iraqi workmen. In a dark recess of one of the complex's stone-lined corridors is a steel door opening onto a vault painted dark green. It was here, his associates say, that Uday tucked away the admonishing letter from his father. It was a letter he couldn't destroy but never wanted to see again. A letter that proved his father's disappointment in his elder son. The vault...
...bridge” (really an elevated building) between the two. It is complicated in that the surfaces of these elements are treated in all sorts of crazy styles and textures. There is brick in many shades, laid in a variety of corduroy patterns; there is engineered stone (cast concrete), both rough and smooth; there are windows, both protruding and flush. The surface of the “bridge” is striated with a pattern of engineered stone; while subtle and somewhat creative, this hodgepodge of surfaces ultimately makes the building look like it’s peeling from...
University Provost Steven E. Hyman netted $201,724, and Vice President for Community, Government and Public Affairs Alan J. Stone earned $257,365, including a $67,511 signing bonus. These figures, however, reflect less than a full year of service, as both of these administrators arrived at Harvard last fall...
...time capsules," says Yankovic. "I can't let anything go by without commenting." Thus Nelly's Hot in Herre gets retitled Trash Day (We're guessing: "There's so much trash in here"), while the Backstreet Boys' I Want It That Way is reworked as eBay. (Two birds, one stone.) But the main event is the eagerly awaited Eminem spoof, Couch Potato. "I've wanted to do Eminem for a long time because he's the closest thing we have to a superstar," says Yankovic. "But a lot of his songs are sort of tongue in cheek already. Lose Yourself...
...Tasaday story created an immediate sensation, first as an allegory representing our yearning for a more peaceful, simpler time and then as a symbol of our own gullibility. In 1971, as a terrible war dragged on in Southeast Asia, a Stone Age tribe was discovered living in total seclusion in the Philippine rain forest. The Tasaday were gentle folk whose language lacked even a word for war. They dressed in loincloths and skirts made of orchid leaves, slept in picturesque caves and lived off the land on a diet consisting of fruit, fish and insects. NBC Evening News broke...