Word: autumns
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...balmy, autumn midnight of Stephen Smith’s freshman year, he and his roommates were on their way back to Pennypacker after a riotous night of Harvard bar-hopping . Unsolicited, two pit-like girls approached the cadre of boys, set their longing gazes on Stephen, and propositioned him for a little menage-à-trois...
...euphoria of victory fades, it's becoming clear that some commanders are more equal than others. While Mohaqiq spends his days sitting by his satellite phone swatting away the occasional autumn fly in an empty meeting room, Atta's home is crowded with tribal elders and local dignitaries paying respects and requesting his signature on a flurry of papers. In turn, both Atta and Mohaqiq are required to drive out of the city to Dostum's fort when the veteran warlord summons them. (Dostum also maintains a castle-like complex in Shiburghan, some two hours west of Mazar.) And while...
...proper that we renew our commitment to the strength of our righteousness. Now, when we are bruised, when we have tasted blood in our mouth and smelled the breath of wickedness and begun the long hard fight to beat it back with the liberating power of freedom. Our autumn was a progress toward this end. The annual festival of fear was truly terrifying this October, but it passed. November brought in its stead a season for the giving of thanks. And it is part of thanksgiving to acknowledge that there is One to whom thanks is due. In the coming...
...making a special effort to get home this year, set the table, unfold the napkins, make the time for a messy conversation with the people who know us best. This is where we find out how we are really doing on the character test: Have the events of autumn left us humbled, or hardened? Bitter at all we feel we have lost, or grateful for all that we once took for granted...
...rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end any discussion of animal rights. Turn loose anthrax and al-Qaeda in America, and look for a similar effect. In two months of a weird autumn, Americans have been shocked out of one country and into a strange new territory called the homeland--a cozy expression, vaguely British, that Americans have never used before. Up to Sept. 11, "homeland security" would have seemed a redundancy. Why shouldn't the homeland be secure...