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...weeks ago, a blockmate and I were walking down Holyoke Street, kicking a pebble back and forth in front of us and trying to decide what we would do after college. We had each considered and dismissed half a dozen prospective professions (we were, we decided, too hopeless at chemistry to be doctors, too bad at public speaking to be lawyers and too big to be jockeys) before he turned to me, eyes bright...
Whether he was immersed in planning sessions, taking late-night sat-phone calls from the Pentagon or pacing pensively back and forth across the ramshackle warehouse, Chalabi operated like a man on a mission. He issued a statement calling on Iraqis to "join with us" in flushing out the rest of Saddam's regime. He insisted that he was not expecting to run Iraq. "It is what the Iraqis want that I think is most important," he told TIME. But the preparations around him--a Pentagon liaison briefing his bodyguards on how to usher him in and out of crowds...
Stemming from discussions on the Adams “schmooze” e-mail list, students were invited to bring forth their thoughts about the state of the nation. Gordon describes e-mail as “a raw and direct means of communication,” and so she encouraged students to visually manipulate printed copies of e-mail and display them censored, cut up and highlighted...
...pens hover over the numbers, ink cobras ready to strike. The air is thick with anticipation, or at least cigarette smoke. Then the man up onstage begins his ritual call: "One and two, 12. All the sixes, 66 ?" Suddenly, the place is alive with movement - hands zipping back and forth, dabbing at the cards with sniper-like precision. Everyone racing to be the first to fill a row, two rows or a full house. Racing to win. Okay, so granted that bingo, a favored pastime of Britain's comfy slipper set, will never pass for an extreme sport. But recently...
...game went back and forth over the first four-and-a-half innings, with Harvard and the Eagles trading runs in almost every frame to leave the score at 7-5 in the middle of the fifth...