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...pretty good job at acting refined, composed and generally ready to enter that larger world out there. As each of FM’s fifteen seniors arrived to our tastefully blocked-off corner of the restaurant, there were air kisses and sophisticated-sounding greetings. Everyone was really well-dressed, except maybe Andrew D. “Tad” Warshall, who looked sportingly non-conformist with a tuxedo jacket, open shirt and scraggly head of hair topped with baseball cap. People drifted in, sat down, sipped water and made conversation while we all waited for dinner to start...
Sure, it’s a pretty damn cool scooter. IT’s creator, Dean Kamen, thinks it will one day be more popular than the car. More power to everyone if that’s the case (except, presumably, the car companies, who would in fact have less power). But even if we’re all riding IT around downtown in a few years, IT really wasn’t worth all of the advance press. The mystery that surrounded IT for a year attracted wild speculation from dorky nerds and nerdy dorks alike—people...
...Running with that TV theme, IT could have been a way to get any sporting event that’s ever happened, immediately on-demand. ESPN Classic is generally good for this sort of thing—except that cable channel has recently taken to showing bad sports movies during times when one should be able to sit down and expect game action. There are few things more deflating than sitting down to watch something of the dramatic quality of the Kirk Gibson game, only to be met with something like The Garbage-Picking, Field Goal-Kicking Philadelphia Phenomenon...
...just as the meltdown of Taliban military power has not brought real peace to Afghanistan, neither has the disappearance of its hated religious police brought women freedom overnight. Afghan society is tribal and conservative. Except for a small minority of educated professionals in Kabul, women have long been relegated to a subservient role. In rural areas of northern Afghanistan that are under the control of the Northern Alliance, the burka is still universal, though no law requires it. Even in Kabul, where Western-style skirts were not uncommon before the Taliban, many women say the burka is the least...
...might not become a force to be reckoned with, but Lee almost certainly will. Last week, he announced that he will form something called a "do tank," which he said will be sort of like a think tank, except that it will actually do something: namely, pressure the government and Taiwan's opposition politicians to think like him. And his campaign speeches made it clear that this means taking a much harder line on China and its sympathizers in the KMT. In one speech, Lee described himself as a prophet who would help release the Taiwanese people from the bondage...