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...another protective factor, I’m not entering tournaments—it took a lot of restraint not to drop ten dollars on the college’s first campus-wide tournament, which began last week. But as a reward to myself for that show of restraint, two roommates joined me for a friendly game on a Wednesday night. So what if we don’t have a fourth? Good way to kill an hour, right? The three of us huddled around a ratty little Habitat for Humanity ottoman we bought for a dollar—which...
...about their “lucrative summer position” at Goldman or Stanley. But, if their impressive euphemisms for “internship” haven’t yet frightened you, just wait for it: rolling the “I” across their tongue, they drop the big one, I-banker. “Welcome to unemployment,” you lament in your joblessness...
...drop in the number of applications from Chinese and Indian students is particularly striking,” Summers wrote in the letter. “Applications from Chinese students alone declined as much as 40% in some of our graduate programs...
...they struggled to explain the unnerving drop-off in Shi'ite support for the occupation, some U.S. officials suggested a familiar foe might be helping to stoke the uprising. "We know the Iranians have been meddling," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told reporters last week. "And it's unhelpful to have neighboring countries meddling in the affairs of Iraq...
...this question is not raised more often. In my view, we can stop terrorism only if we get to its root causes. President Bush's war on terrorism will not eradicate the problem but nurture it. For every terrorist killed or arrested, a new one will emerge. We should drop all the rhetoric about the war on terrorism. Such a war cannot be won, as there is no clearly defined enemy. The so-called war on drugs shows that all too well. HEINZ KRAENZLEIN Velbert, Germany...