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...Interactions like these are the hallmark of the increasingly popular website ChatRoulette. In and of itself, the site is just a platform for live, face-to-face conversations with total strangers, with few rules and no guidelines. It takes anonymous online chatting (not a new thing), adds webcams and lets users have at it. You don't need a user name, a profile or a friend request to participate - there's an immediate connection to a random stream of total strangers from all around the world. Bored by what you see? Click "Next," and someone else is waiting...
...there was ever a good time for President Obama to make one of his lauded grand-slam speeches, it was last week. Obama’s hallmark health-care reform suffered a disheartening blow with the January 19th election of Republican Scott Brown to the Senate, thereby ruining the Democrats’ filibuster-proof majority. Coupling the election with a lack of progress on many of the other issues that comprised a major part of Obama’s campaign, a chorus of pundits, politicians, and voters immediately declared Obama’s agenda dead or, at least, majorly stunted...
Stability at the goaltender position has long been a hallmark of Harvard women’s hockey, with stalwarts like Ali Boe ’06, Brittany Martin ’08, and senior Christina Kessler defending the net for the Crimson in recent years. But when Kessler’s college career came to a sudden end after she tore her ACL two weeks ago, Harvard was forced to thrust untested freshman Laura Bellamy into the starting role earlier than it ever planned...
...that response - which could have been legally risky, since WMD, not desire for regime change, provided the official justification for British action - during his Iraq-inquiry testimony. "Sometimes what is important is not to ask the March 2003 question but to ask the 2010 question," he said. (Remember, the hallmark of a true politician is the ability to interview oneself.) "Supposing we had backed off this military action, supposing we had left Saddam and his sons, who were going to follow him, in charge of Iraq. He had used chemical weapons, caused the death of over a million people...
...were supposed to have had a nice little talk about the Occupation," he notes. The emotions unleashed in this tale couldn't be contained in any nice little talk. They are painfully universal. Yet you know exactly where in the universe you are. This is the hallmark of great short stories, from Chekhov's portraits of discontented Russians to Joyce's struggling Dubliners to Jhumpa Lahiri's uprooted Bengalis. People are the same everywhere; it's the places that define them that are different. (See the 100 best novels of all time...