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...straight from the Highlands. Barmen wear kilts, a set of bagpipes adorns the bar, and the walls are covered with posters of haggis, Scottish flags, watercolors of Edinburgh Castle and the pub's fake Scottish crest. One of the most fun touches is a Lenin statue wearing a tartan beret. Shipping beer the 4,000 km from Scotland has proved too much of a challenge, though, so the ale is mostly Russian, German and, yes, Irish. But there are Scotch whisky brands aplenty and the menu tries hard to stay on theme. Full Duncan salad (named after the Highlander hero...
...compass go haywire in battle look first for a weak chain of command. That was a factor in the March 1968 My Lai massacre in Vietnam, when U.S. soldiers, including members of an Army platoon led by Lieut. William Calley, killed some 500 Vietnamese. Says a retired Army Green Beret colonel who fought in Vietnam: "Somebody has failed to say, 'No, that's not right.'" No one, apparently, was delivering that message last November in Haditha...
...School?FROM BROWN TO BRONTOSAURSKnep doesn’t look like an “experimental artist.” With his average height and conservative dress, he’s easy to lose sight of in a crowd, and wouldn’t be caught dead in a beret. Yet, he’s been quietly redefining artistic expression for more than a decade. “I’m a computer scientist and a mathematician. That’s my palette,” he says. He possesses degrees in computer science and math from Brown University...
...serendipitous occasion,” the ASA and the Middle Eastern Studies Association have double-booked the hotel, so that their annual meetings’ overlap.This serendipity is manifold. Several yards away, two Levantine sorts whisper to one another—one, a grey-bearded man wearing a maroon beret, puts his palms on either cheek of his lady companion, and then swoops in to kiss her savagely. Then, just down the way, a very pale white woman appears in Nigerian garb that she has been saving for just the proper occasion: an ankle-long, garish purple gown with green...
...folder, I promised myself that no Harvard student would ever learn of my dark, spandex secret. I did quite well for a year, sticking to pseudo-intellectual subjects—Kant’s probable interpretation of globalization, Derrida’s take on postmodernism. Give me a black beret, and the image would have been complete...