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...favorite books or hymns or lullabies before they left, so their kids could remember what Mama sounds like. Some put up maps in their children's bedrooms, so they will know where Mom is. Laura carries her family pictures in the humvee that takes her across the desert between base camps, and she doesn't have to be prompted to take them...
...action but farther away from hot meals and telephones. Signs that the battle is approaching multiply by the day: the electrified fence along the border has tank doorways cut through it. The U.N. border observers are pulling out, and civilian officials are pulling back. At the various base camps, soldiers can wait in line at the PX for two hours just to buy razor blades and batteries. Wild dogs roam the perimeter of the camps, keeping the rats at bay. And the sandstorms are like a shroud that stings; taking a shower is a waste of time since...
...parachute-assisted jump off the top of the Ivory Tower will land us at the base of the mountain of Real Life. Compared to our previous experience, this new climb promises to test fewer skills in greater repetition. College graduates like us—jacks of all trades but masters of none—will narrow our foci, settle into our routines, and begin to climb anew. Maybe all this is why drunken alumni at Harvard-Yale games sputter on about how our college years are the best years of our lives...
...Just two days earlier, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (L.T.T.E.), which is fighting for a separate Tamil state, had killed 17 Sri Lankan navymen in a suicide attack. So the murder of the Ketheeswarans, who were ethnic Tamils living near a naval base, was viewed by some as revenge by wayward sailors. Others saw it differently: some supporters of the Tigers blamed rival Tamils; an aide to President Mahinda Rajapakse spoke of unspecified forces "trying to discredit the President"; and Sinhalese nationalists even suggested the Tigers had killed their own to justify future attacks. To make sense...
...protest a speaker because he doesn’t “speak for you” is a cowardly, base display of narrow-mindedness, one that is certainly not conducive to any meaningful political change. This behavior is abrasive to no end, not forcing us to take a stand, but to blush at the brash arrogance of these students, whose efforts are counterproductive and embarrassing. The New School protest obscured the real issues at hand, putting their politics and measures on the front page rather than drawing attention to the sham of an administration under which we currently suffer...