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...seem unfounded. Universal access would enable students to evade suspicious individuals as they travel through campus at night. Currently, there is universal access between 8 a.m. and 1 a.m., and there has been no great increase in theft or assault in the Houses during these hours. Allowing students to slip inside a House foyer makes far more sense from a public-safety perspective than leaving them outside to bang on the gates...
...common impulse for conquerors to slip off and have a nap in the enemy's bed. That's why I wasn't too surprised to find a man sleeping in Mullah Mohammed Omar's bed in Kandahar. He had his machine-gun next to him, and when I asked him if he was dreaming of Mullah Omar, he growled "I'm too tired to dream," and he covered his head with a wool blanket...
...even ‘Get hitched in 2002’).” Whoa there, Glamour. I know this whole astrology thing is a big joke we inexplicably like to include in the morning paper and call 1-800 numbers about, but since when is it okay to slip a little tidbit like that into a harmless parenthesis. The reading “Do make a wild New Year’s Eve resolution” would have been fine, something I could label vague and generally inoffensive advice. A wild resolution could be anything from “start...
...really emotional loss like that, a championship-caliber team bounces back and dusts itself off and comes back the next day. Not to say we didn’t have guys who really wanted to win, we just didn’t have the mental toughness. We let it slip just enough to let it spiral in on itself...
...music to squeaky shoes, but at least there were laws. (Rough justice is no excuse, of course, for the Taliban's intellectual and cultural oppression.) But now, as the three warlords who control Jalalabad remain inside their walled compounds, residents on the dusty streets outside fear their city will slip into medieval disorder. Relief grain sent by the World Food Program sits in warehouses, as deliveries remain too dangerous to complete. Bandits have overrun the most important road in Afghanistan, from Jalalabad to Kabul, rendering it impassable to anyone without an armed escort (four journalists traveling along it were executed...