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...Fort Campbell, Ky., home of the 101st Airborne Screaming Eagles, wait for news from Kuwait, and the latest word from their mom or dad. Everyone--children, wives, husbands, parents--keeps cell phones on at all times and answers them without apology, for fear of missing a call someone stood in line for five hours to make. They go to the post store to load up on toilet paper and Twinkies and other survival gear to ship over. Ten-year-olds talk about the status of negotiations with Turkey. Five-year-olds say the prayers of soldiers' families: "Dear God, please...
...many students camp out in Lamont, others have opted to relieve their stress through yoga with Gene Pacelli at the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC). The 64-year-old yoga instructor stood in front of his 25-person class, balancing on one leg with his hands clasped together as if he were praying. “Whatever it is you’re holding on to, let go of everything less than happiness,” Pacelli says. “I had an exam on Friday, so I had to go to yoga Thursday,” says Anna Reinert...
GIVEN ALL THE UNCERTAINTIES, THE CITY'S evacuation plan is simple: Get out of town before a bad storm strikes. Vera Trippett, 34, stood in her three-bedroom ranch house in Gentilly last week, contemplating the rapidly approaching hurricane season. Her house stewed for weeks in 10 ft. of nasty water after Katrina. She's reluctant to put her trust in the levees, but, she says, "I do have faith in the Corps' need not to be embarrassed again." As a result, she and her husband John are finishing repairs. They have gutted their house, put in hurricane-resistant windows...
...interview was interrupted by screaming. Five feet away, a young American journalist from Knight Ridder had attracted the attention of security forces by taking photographs. Five or six of them jumped on her and began grabbing for her camera, hitting her and reaching down her shirt as she stood pinned against a parked...
...simply not smart enough to get accepted into the elite, Ivy-League Universities they dreamed about sending them to. When President Bush declared in his State of the Union address some years ago that steroids in professional sports “Send the wrong message,” hundreds stood up and applauded in unison. What he neglected to mention was that thousands of overzealous parents and physicians are sending this same wrong message to the youth of America every day.Stephen C. Bartenstein ’08, a Crimson editorial editor, is a government concentrator in Lowell House...