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...times, the flavor of his stories and the depth of his nostalgia recall Borscht Belt, the razor-sharp timing and perfect phrasing are pure Mamet. Jay’s skills at handling such material as well as their presence in the show attest both to the basis for the two men’s friendship and to Mamet’s directorial influence on the evening...
Cornell has yet to play a game but will have a match tomorrow against Brown under its belt by the time Harvard rolls into town...
...Yorkers, people in Oklahoma City understood what it meant when the Twin Towers collapsed. Until last month, their city was known for the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil. They'd spent six years educating themselves on terror's ills and elixirs, turning this corner of the Bible Belt into one of the largest concentrations of terrorism experts in the country. As with the Trade Center attacks, regular folks had lost all their co-workers in minutes. Some families lost all their children. They started using words like "hypervigilance" and "a new normal" in everyday conversation...
...guard almost as vigilantly as their own sovereignty. Negotiators must tackle how far and how fast the U.S. might be willing to lower production and export subsidies--an Administration goal designed to help persuade other countries to do the same. But the White House will need to persuade farm belt members of Congress first. Even trickier is Europe's insistence that developing countries bring their investment and environmental rules in line with Western standards; developing countries have long sought access to big agriculture markets...
...hurricane lamp we eat a meal of stale bread dunked in thin soup and drink strong black tea. After finishing, two of the boys turn to karambol, a game like pool in which flat counters are flicked across a board. Farid, another section commander, sits intently loading an ammunition belt with machine-gun rounds. Allah Mahmad lounges on one of the beds and talks wistfully of wanting the kind of education for his four sons that he never got. "Right now the two eldest are being taught by mullahs," he says with a laugh. "It's not great...