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...before the performances could begin, Megan introduced University President Lawrence H. Summers, who climbed the stage in his purple Arts First t-shirt...
...Fallujah harboring foreign fighters hell-bent on destabilizing the country's reconstruction? Why don't Iraqis take more responsibility for their country's problems? It's still possible that as sovereignty is returned to Iraqis and the heavy footprint of the occupation is eased, the mutual antagonism will begin to dissipate. But until then, the prevailing mood for Americans and Iraqis is one of fear--fear of being caught in a suicide attack or a roadside bombing, fear of unemployment, fear of the unknown. "Fear is in our blood," my translator Ali Shaheen told me last week. "We fear even...
...things begin to heat up. Loud explosions from bombs dropped by U.S. F-16s can be heard in the center of the city. The insurgents respond with two salvos of mortar fire against Easy Company's base. Captain John Bailey, a soft-spoken F-18 pilot temporarily assigned here as a forward air controller, hauls his laser equipment onto the roof. He focuses his laser on a two-story building at the edge of town. He radios the pilot of an F-16 and orders an air strike. "Come on, bird," he says to himself. "You're going...
...says Steven Tuen, a co-manager of the Kinetics Internet Fund, "I see no urgency to bid." The typical IPO sold at auction rises less than 7% the first day. So there isn't a lot of risk in simply waiting for trading to begin. By then you'll know who sold what, and you just might get a better price...
...equivalent of singing in the street." In 1999 Merritt and his band the Magnetic Fields released 69 Love Songs, a spectacular three-CD, genre-spanning survey that included titles like Absolutely Cuckoo and (Crazy for You But) Not That Crazy. The Magnetic Fields' new album, I (all the songs begin with the word or letter I), out May 4, has 14 more love songs that veer between tragically camp earnestness and deep romantic cynicism. On I Don't Believe You, Merritt sings: "So you quote love unquote me/Well, stranger things have come to be/But let's agree to disagree/Cause...