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...success is grounded in paradox. Cosa Nostra is a multinational conglomerate based in the backwater of Sicily, an organization bred in violence that accumulates power best when it maintains internal peace. It is an association of men - sometimes men of extraordinary influence and charisma - yet the Thing is always bigger than even its most powerful bosses...
...strike drags on, neither side may like the answer. The 1988 strike lasted five months, but TV didn't have to compete with the Internet or Netflix, and Tetris wasn't quite so involving as Halo 3. (Movies are less affected because they have a bigger backlog of scripts...
...politics to those of that decade? -Jo Ann Douglas, Gulf Shores, Ala. We're at war. It's an unpopular and divisive war. Again, the élites have the privilege of avoiding military service because it's an all-voluntary military now. We have a much bigger drug culture now than we had then. The recreational use of drugs [then], some of it was quite benign. Now it has given way to vast criminal empires that are ravaging the inner cities of this country...
...bigger problem, Aftab said, is the political situation and the treatment of those who are openly opposed to Musharraf...
...single Harvard student by our education and our peer group. The hubris of American culture largely trickles down from the elites educated at schools like this, and even a conscientious objector is hard pressed to emerge unmarked by an irrational conviction that things in this country are, in fact, bigger and better than they are at home.At the end of the day, some international students have it easy. Plenty of Harvard graduates from sub-Saharan Africa return home to make immense contributions to countries where their expertise is desperately needed. They may not tread the usual path to New York...