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...spent two years at Yale. Are you ever going back? I guess that possibility is becoming increasingly remote. But I had a wonderful time there. I met my best friends. I had a few epiphanies, drank too much beer, ate a lot of junk food. But it had been three years since I had acted, and I wanted to return to it. I kind of needed...
...suddenly found itself in charge of 300 Kurdish fighters from the north, known as peshmerga, who had been fighting Saddam for a dozen years. Joint strategy meetings were anything but regular Army. "A lot of communication goes on over pita bread, chai and rice," said the U.S. officer. "We ate what they ate...
...self-described food fanatic, Helen K. Ahn ’03 says her high school in New Paris, Ohio was “literally surrounded by nothing but corn.” She remembers that her neighbors ate casseroles, meat and potatoes and that her mother had to drive an hour and a half to find Korean ingredients. It was not an auspicious beginning for a girl now in love with the creativity and variety that preparing food allows...
...greater discretionary defense spending free of congressional scrutiny. That doesn't sound so alarming, but for Byrd precedent is everything. And everything about the Iraq war--from the radical new doctrine of military pre-emption to the Administration's failure to offer an estimate of the war's cost--ate at Byrd's sense of tradition. Conservatives and liberals who think he's a peacenik miss the point. With Byrd, the rules aren't picayune but the bricks of democracy. His legendary 98.74% voting record grows out of his faith that every vote matters, even when it's merely procedural...
...Kimball is also working for less pay. Two years ago, he was a computer-sales executive earning $130,000 a year. He leased two shining cars, ate out often and took expensive vacations with his wife. When the small computer-services company he worked for in Raleigh, N.C., went out of business in the summer of 2001, Kimball, now 58, was unconcerned. "I had never had a problem finding work," he recalls. But times had changed. He struggled to land a decent job, and the stress contributed to a heart condition that required surgery. Finally, a mortgage firm that...