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...supposed to have a modest-sized room and bed to myself. But for the last nine weeks, I’ve been crammed, along with a friend from high school, on the disturbingly hair-infested carpeted floor of an apartment living room. Almost every night, we get the pleasure of seeing the person from whom we are subletting stumbling through the room late at night to connect her computer to the phone line or to make tea. If it hadn’t been for a generous friend staying in Washington who let me borrow a surplus mattress from...
...hour period over the weekend, despite Israel's reoccupation of most of the West Bank's urban areas. Although the Israeli military is looking to respond through measures punishing family members of suicide bombers, the Defense Minister's revival of the longstanding idea of Gaza as a test-bed for truces and peace agreements suggests that the dovish faction of the Israeli government (Ben-Eliezer heads the Labor Party) is signaling its desire to renew some form of peace process with the Palestinian Authority - notwithstanding the reservations of the hawkish faction of the Bush administration, which in the person...
...horticulture. His great gift--the one that makes him the best rock 'n' roll singer of his era--is empathy. Springsteen doesn't know what a 40-hour workweek feels like, but he knows how a 40-hour workweek makes you feel. "If you roll out of bed in the morning," he says, "even if you're the deepest pessimist or cynic, you just took a step into the next day. When I was growing up, we didn't have very much, but I saw by my mom's example that a step into the next day was very important...
After listening to vegetarians who argue for sparing the lives of animals, I have to ask, Why is eating a live oyster a greater crime than eating a live broccoli stalk plucked from the garden bed? JOHN LASKAS SR. Media...
...holiday has meant that British visitors to Denmark's second city, Aarhus, have multiplied six-fold since Ryanair started its regular service and have become the second-largest group of foreign tourists, after Swedes. Local businesses are delighted to see the newcomers, since they occupy about 25,000 bed-nights a year, spending an average of 3177 a day. "They come because they want to experience Denmark," says Steen Berg, head of the Aarhus tourist board. "They enjoy walking around the old streets, watching the cyclists, visiting the cathedral and museums. It is pure pleasure having them...