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Horrible, evil, sickening? Yes. A thousand yeses. But unbelievable? No. All too believable, sadly...
...Death to Americans" shouted the mullah, his right arm punching the air. "Death to Americans" responded the crowd of several thousand men, gathered in the narrow streets of the Qissa Khawani bazaar in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar after Friday prayers. They had congregated outside the mosque to listen to speakers denounce the U.S. and its war against terrorism. At the back of the crowd a man raised a straw effigy of President Bush, set it alight, and then others flailed at the burning straw with sticks...
...many ways, it’s hard to characterize the Rally any differently than Janet Lapey, executive director of Concerned Citizens for Drug Prevention, did before the House Judiciary Committee in 1997: “Forty thousand young people were lured to Boston Common to hear rock music glorifying drug use and to smoke marijuana openly. There was a thick cloud of marijuana smoke over the Common, and children as young as 12 explained to reporters they were smoking marijuana because it is “a healthy medicine.” This year, it appeared that the latter...
...exams. In any case, it was quickly resolved that all the sources before us were biased, fundamentally so. I remember feeling surprise at how easily 20-year-old students—many of whom had never taken a college-level history class—disposed of the thousand-year-old documents on the handout and in the sourcebook, laying bare the writers’ deepest assumptions and secret agendas...
...Problem was, the post-apocalyptic resumption of U.S. stock trading Monday was also arguably the most breathlessly anticipated session of all time. Three thousand traders crowd the floor of the NYSE every day, but as we all milled around outside in the hours before the reopening bell - breathing air still gray and bitter with smoke and dust and dawn - they were easily outnumbered by the professional gawkers who had descended on the Big Board from all over the world, panning for soundbites, owing copy...