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...majority of fans in the stands politely applauded the entrance of Boston’s playoff-bound team, but a solid three-fourths expended their collective cheering abilities for the visiting team’s starting center...
...literally--of allowing U.S. troops on Turkish soil. While the diplomats haggled, nearly three dozen ships started to ferry men and equipment of the 4th Infantry Division from the U.S. to Turkey. Under the war plans, the division is supposed to attack Iraq from the north. Diverting the Turkey-bound ships to the Persian Gulf--probably to Kuwait--would delay the optimum start date of a war by a month. Both Turkish and Administration officials said at the end of last week that a broad basis for a deal had been reached...
...column "How Israel Is Wrapped Up in Iraq," Joe Klein said the goal of a "stronger Israel is very much embedded in the rationale for war with Iraq" [IN THE ARENA, Feb. 10]. The future of the U.S. has never been so bound to the success or failure of a foreign country as it is to Israel today. And I don't like it. Klein should write an article titled "How America Is Wrapped Up in Israel," because we don't seem to be able to do anything anywhere without its somehow being connected to Israel. CHRISTINE SELLITTO New York...
...already threatening his stay in China. Just a couple days earlier while walking down the street in Qingyuan, the town where the team is training, Gazza suffered a panic attack when the sense of dislocation overwhelmed him. It was all too much, the motorbikes laden with squawking ducks bound for market, the green-tiled temples rising in the distance and the men blowing spheroids of snot straight onto the street one nostril at a time. "I thought, s---, I'm going to get stuck in this bloody ghost town forever," he says, hands tearing a napkin to shreds...
...vague unease, which I expect to persist in the face of whatever institutional changes are in the works. In any case, they are likely to be small ones, since Harvard doesn’t change easily, and it doesn’t change much. Yet some things are bound to change: modern students are the great 20th century innovation, at once the product and the customer. If this is the case, I wonder what our half-lives are and when we’re due to expire...