Word: though
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...street by simply raising a single index finger. The prefects who sweep into classrooms, gowns billowing, to summon boys to see the headmaster are known as praepostors (as in preposterous). And at Eton -- and only at Eton -- academic quarters are called halves, making three halves in a school year (though the midpoint of each is "long leave," since half-halves could be mistaken for quarters...
...Though classes at Eton are still known as "divisions," they are less and less reflections of class division. The school has, of course, its share of Bertie Woosters, but many of its students are rarely idle and hardly rich: 250 of the 1,270 boys have part of their fees paid by the school. Both fagging, whereby younger boys had to dance attention on their elders, and flogging are gone, as are some of the other fabled barbarisms that may have encouraged two of the school's alumni to fashion the most chilling dystopias of the century in Brave...
...important way, things are the same. "Soldiers waiting for action are usually alike: anxious, annoyed, bored," recalls Tokyo bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand, who spent two years in Vietnam and later reported on the war between Iran and Iraq. Geographically, though, the two places are worlds apart. Senior correspondent James Wilde observed combat scenes for six years in Vietnam, "spending hours floundering around in swamps, up to the waist in water." Says Wilde, who is based in Rome: "Give me the desert anytime." The jungle terrain and guerrilla nature of the war in Southeast Asia made for unconventional fighting, recalls correspondent...
...seems likely to continue for quite a while. Hughes and his colleagues have succeeded again in reminding Hollywood that though audiences like to be scared and occasionally shocked, they like most of all to feel good...
...battle is the payoff, as the ancient saying goes, and only battle can settle the question of what a war between the U.S.-led alliance and Iraq would be like. Would it be a brief though explosive clash in which American air power would quickly prevail with relatively light casualties? A long, grinding struggle on the ground with the killed and wounded on both sides counted in the scores of thousands? Or something in between...