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...high school teammate recalls his wiry, 100-lb. friend as "well-mannered, disciplined and studious." Yee earned a ticket to West Point, from which he graduated in 1990. Later, after he rebelled against his Lutheran upbringing, converted to Islam and became a Muslim chaplain, he told anyone who would listen that his was a religion of peace. He lived quietly with his wife and young daughter in a middle-class apartment complex in Olympia, Wash. To the military, he was the ideal guy to minister to the hardened Muslim inmates at Gitmo...
...maintain security. Chalabi, for his part, had argued for a U.S.-trained, 15,000-strong military-police force to keep the peace after the collapse of Saddam's regime. "It would have made all the difference in the world," he says. But U.S. policymakers, claims Chalabi, "didn't listen...
...offering but should nevertheless be lauded. All eggs are now cooked to order at breakfast, cutting down on waste and increasing freshness, while also being more responsive to individual preferences. All coffee in the dining halls is now Fair Trade, which shows that HUDS can be made to listen to student concerns, even if it is not always prompt in doing...
...this “global community,” Britain and America are siblings, prevented from squabbling too much by a little ocean and a few hundred years of history. In an age of monopolistic record companies and internet file-sharing, you could be forgiven for expecting everyone to listen to the same music—whatever the corporate gods see fit to entertain us. Everyone likes talking about Radiohead, everyone is afflicted with Britney Spears, Coldplay is everywhere on both sides of the Atlantic. But look closer, and the common tastes start to vanish...
...have to be the first one on line. I scan the airport suspiciously and listen hard for Hebrew. I try not to remember the sound of my grandmother’s voice when she’d call us just because, randomly asking me if I’d heard of this Brazilian writer or that German family drama, and remembering every detail I’d ever told her about my life...