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Just as important as family is the stability that close friends bring. William Bender, 71, a retired journalism professor at Bradley University in Peoria, Ill., winces at the thought of abandoning his circle of friends for the Sun Belt. Bender joins about seven or eight pals for a lunch date every month. And Friday afternoons there is bratwurst and "a lot of beers" with a dozen friends at a local German restaurant called the Hofbrau. Bender, a widower with two grown daughters, enjoys attending concerts and other cultural events at Bradley. Although he says he could probably make friends anywhere...
...After two decades of fighting, defections and double-crosses, suspicion and betrayal are the guiding principles of any smart Afghan operator. Atta, for example, once fought with the Taliban. Dostum allied himself with Soviet forces during occupation; when they left, he sided with and then betrayed their successor, ill-fated President Najibullah, before being given up himself by onetime ally Abdul Malik. Much of the Taliban's sweeping success came from confronting the atomized, warring mujahedin factions with a nearly psychotic demand for uniformity. "The mujahedin say they are together now, but in reality no alliance ever lasts for long...
...could be right. Helen Suzman, at 84 South Africa's veteran liberal voice, says that the deal with the D.P. was "the kiss of life to the then terminally-ill National Party. If they go to the A.N.C., then good riddance to them. They won't last long...
Harvard has gone about its business quietly, while other Ivy League teams have compiled more impressive wins against more recognizable Division I teams. But the Browns and Columbias of the world—and Penn and Princeton, as well—would be ill-advised to discount these wins, based on the Crimson’s strength of schedule. In a year when not much is expected and all the pressure is off, Harvard is doing the things necessary to compete with bigger, more talented teams...
...there an antidote to arrogance? Humility, no doubt - though arrogance gags on such medicine. Humility is one of the neglected and unpopular virtues, like chastity - a little brown wren of a virtue, unsatisfying, unphotogenic, ill suited to a media age. Let us try instead...introspection...