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...country must run features like this anytime the U.S. government openly contemplates a military action, police action or "freedom fight" abroad. If we think we understand enough about a nation to know what is best for it, then we ought to be able to look its ordinary citizens straight in the eyes before killing them for their own good. And please spare those people speeches about how it is only their government we hate, not them. If the whole world operated by that standard, Prime Minister Tony Blair's Britain and President George W. Bush's U.S. would have been...
...poor Park family seems farcically overmatched by the monster. The sharpshooter dad runs out of bullets; the girl archery expert can't shoot straight. Actually, you won't want them to kill the monster, not right away, since it has lots of its own eccentricities. The creature is less vicious than playful, a showboating athlete that does high-bar 360s on a bridge rail and backflips into the river. When it hits land, it lopes like Marmaduke next to its ostensible victims; it treats any human in its mouth more as a chew toy than as lunch. If the movie...
Fitzgerald, 46, developed his sense of fair play while growing up in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, with parents he has described as "hardworking, straight, decent people." His father, a doorman on Manhattan's Upper East Side, reportedly arrived early for every shift and rarely took vacations. Fitzgerald himself worked as a janitor during high school and as a doorman in the summers while attending Amherst College, from which he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1982. He then received a law degree from Harvard...
...classic ‘write what you know’ situation,” says Clark. “After graduation, I went straight into publishing, and from there I jumped straight into this book...
...percent clip from behind the arc and a 35.1 percent mark from the field – on the opening weekend of Ivy play seemed an early harbinger of inconsistency and underperforming.Then I flew south for the spring, and the Crimson took off running. 12 straight wins in Ivy League play – 10 of them by 10 points or more – helped the Crimson to its first NCAA tournament berth since 2003. Harvard’s 13 wins is the league’s most since the Crimson ran the table in 2002-2003 before losing...