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Daniel Pearl was an enormously respected reporter who is being widely hailed as soft-spoken but deeply honest and willing to press anyone for the truth, regardless of their power or title. His last words were an affirmation that he was too dignified to abandon the truth of his own existence in the face of his captors’ pressure. Although the circumstances of Pearl’s last words are unclear, it might be possible that his captors wanted the video to emphasize Pearl’s Judaism in order to capture the imaginations of anti-Semitic Muslim militants...
Favorite Winter Olympic sport: Figure skating, for sure. I’ll even abandon work to watch it because I wish I could look like that at Frog Pond...
...other situation it may be seen as comical that military officials announced that the Pentagon was going to start deceiving people but, unfortunately, this is no joke. It is imperative that the Bush administration abandon these dangerous plans and safeguard the reputation of the United States with friend and foe alike...
...Sunday, we abandon plans to visit the Palace Museum in favor of sleeping in. The plane ride home isn't fun. But heading to work on Monday, I feel delightfully mischievous, like I've just pulled a holiday out of a weekend...
Fashion is a fickle thing but it seems mass nudity will never go out of style. Twice a year at the stroke of midnight, Harvardians abandon their clothes to participate in Primal Scream. A bunch of Harvard students—who at any other moment would have been clad to the teeth and too cold to give you the time of day—run, jog and saunter around the Yard in their birthdays’ finest...