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...grittiest, most ugly detail. Certainly this would make the tour informative, but the Crimson Key would also weed out the most dreamy-eyed of applicants, who later become the students cantankerously wondering why the world’s richest university doesn’t serve them breakfast in bed...
...Treaty. And, Bush had gotten through the traditional APEC class photo - where each leader is condemned to wear a gaudy shirt of his host country-without looking goofy. His work done, Bush left 12 hours earlier than scheduled; the famous homebody was anxious to get back to his own bed. "I have to run," said National Security Adviser Condi Rice speaking with reporters after the Putin meeting, "because you know when the President is ready to go, the President is ready to go." With Bush gone, that meant the end of the security sweeps. Loaded down with thin blue plastic...
...real, and cunning. You didn't need to shoot the messengers; you just needed to scare them to death, because fear is bacterial as well. It can spread in the air and over wires, infect the marketplace, lay waste to whole industries and leave its victims at home in bed with the covers pulled up. And the worst part was that since there were so many scares, so many hoaxes, we were in some ways doing this to ourselves...
...year old Rahmat Bibi, her legs broken and her head bandaged, crying aloud while asking to be taken to her dead mother, one of the victims of the air strikes. One-year-old Jan Bibi and her three-year-old brother Gul Khan were lying in the same hospital bed, unaware that they had been orphaned. Doctors said they were short of drugs, which wasn't unusual in a country that has been at war for the past 23 years...
...trees. So I went out and bought one of these heavy woolen shawls in the bazaar. Good camoflague, too. I thought I'd blend right in. But instead of looking noble and chic the way these Afghan warriors do, I just feel like I'm shambling around in my bed covers...