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...excitedly trying to avoid capture, but he didn’t strike me as being intentionally aggressive,” McMilliam said. “No punches were thrown...
Harvard University is involved in a sordid love affair. For hundreds of years, one obsession has remained at the beating center of the University’s soul. We have thrown money into duplicating it, waltzed with it all throughout Cambridge, and wailed endlessly when the relationship has come under fire. Luckily, it appears that Harvard is at last ready to make the final split with its old flame: red brick...
...send his daughters to study in the U.S. to avoid the ban. The staunchly secular military has on three occasions ousted Islamic leaders on the grounds that they were mixing politics and faith. But even Turkey's secularists joined in the condemnation of Benedict's remarks: "The Pope has thrown gasoline onto the fire in a world where the risk of a religious clash is high," Kaluk Koc, deputy leader of the nationalist Republican People's Party said...
...foreign designers, dressed as if ready for a night out in New York City. Fiona, in a blousy navy silk jacket and sky-high heels, balances an Herms Birkin in the crook of her arm as she makes adjustments on samples of raincoats. Tia, in a silvery bolero thrown over a gray cotton tank and white pants, is finishing up a resort collection inspired by Lulamae Barnes, the poor Southern child bride who goes on to become Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's. Bouquets of spearmint from Fiona's garden adorn drafting tables, and the staff members' afternoon...
From the city center, one can still see the UN tower which was used to mark the border between Jordan and Israel until the war. Hearing the history of the land Gilo is built on, I struggled to understand why the world cries for farmers and builders to be thrown out of the only homes they have known on land that was previously uninhabited and desolate and which Palestinians have not controlled in recent memory...