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...seem dignified, it's really like Michael Dukakis' riding in the tank and thinking it made him look like a warrior. The lovable loser has more dignity because he keeps going despite his awareness of futility: he knows it's stupid to raise taxes and not lose every state except Minnesota, to try to kick the football while Lucy's holding it, to think dropping the AOL part from his name will fool anybody - but he tries anyway...
...have widened the focus of their raids from "ticking time bombs"--the suicide bombers--to the entire "ticking infrastructure," including the strategists, bombmakers and paymasters. The army's Operation Defensive Shield in spring 2002 left Israeli troops positioned in and around every major Palestinian city in the West Bank. Except for the Bethlehem area, from which they withdrew, the Israelis still hold those positions, allowing commanders to contain the movements of possible terrorists and deploy troops at a moment's notice when intelligence pinpoints...
...tribute to the laissez-faire latitude of the BBC's comedy department, which cheerfully commissioned 13 shows from John Cleese, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin and Terry Jones - Oxbridge graduates working on the hit satirical shows of the day - who had no idea what they would be like except there were to be no stars, no musical interludes and no punchlines. "One of the great executive decisions," says Cleese in The Pythons Autobiography, "and something that wouldn't happen for a split second today." Python's progress since then is a familiar tale - 45 shows, 5 films, 12 albums...
Like Harvard men, John Harvard’s was not that appealing anyway, except that the price was the best Harvard had to offer. So this shopping period, Dartboard has resolved to shop for a new Monday-night dive. And everyone else should too. Besides, after their health code scares this summer, no one wants rattetizers anyway...
Under the plan described in Furlaud’s piece, Harvard would put all class material and lectures on the internet and abandon all of its physical campus, except for the Medical and Dental schools...