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Peter Schiff is loud--a decibel or 12 above everybody else. And it's hard to get him to stop talking. Ask the man a simple question and you get a 10-minute harangue in response. This harangue is likely to feature libertarian political opinions that are by Schiff's own admission pretty extreme--inherited as they were from a father currently in prison (at age 81!) for refusing to pay income...
That they do. Critics of the drones ask if it makes sense for the U.S. to use them when every strike inflames Pakistani public opinion against a pro-U.S. government that is at the point of collapse. "If we wind up killing a whole bunch of al-Qaeda leaders and, at the same time, Pakistan implodes, that's not a victory for us," says David Kilcullen, a counterterrorism expert who played a key role in developing the surge strategy in Iraq. "It's possible the political cost of these attacks exceeds the tactical gains." And yet Pakistani leaders like...
...telescope and spent hours looking at the stars.”Ostriker said that his most memorable class was not a science course, but a class on poetry with modernist poet Archibald MacLeish. He said he enjoyed the chance to figure out what questions to ask about the poems, a challenge he didn’t find in his science classes.In addition to his studies, Ostriker said he had “quite a bit of fun” in college, and Socolow remembered that empty vodka bottles lined the mantle in the room he shared with Ostriker and Robert...
...Crocker have studied abroad together for a semester in St. Andrew’s, Scotland, and spent three long days crabbing and taught themselves how to shuck crabs. And, the two claim they make a fierce Beirut team. Mims has not one but two engagement rings. When Crocker asked for her parents’ permission over the summer, they told him to ask them again in a month, at which point he gave her a family heirloom ring. After asking her parents again and receiving their blessing, Crocker proposed—with another ring—on a bench across...
...last May, his plan did not unfold exactly the way he intended. On their first date their freshman year, Rinehart, a religion concentrator from Northfield, Minn., took Nightingale, a history and literature concentrator from St. Louis, Mo., to the Bunker Hill Monument. So when he decided to ask Nightingale to marry him, that monument seemed like the logical choice for location. This time around, Rinehart decided to take the bus instead of the subway in order to keep the proposal a surprise. After losing the monument from their sight on a walk that quickly became painful for Nightingale...