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...Shafik Nazim al-Ghabra in the Kuwaiti daily al-Ra'i al-Aam on Nov. 23. "The time has come to stop exporting the Arab world's problems to neighboring societies." That paper has been critical of the Taliban from the start, but al-Ghabra's article was particularly bitter. Other Muslim journalists have written articles in the past few weeks about the misinterpretations of the Koran that led some of those Arabs to join the Taliban in the first place...
Harrison, of course, had offered his own guidance on how to think about these things. All Things Must Pass was a song he wrote after the breakup of the Beatles. John had his bitter wit. Ringo Starr had his affability. Paul McCartney had his winking charm. What Harrison possessed was something more unexpected in a rock star: the air of a man in search of mature understandings. He may have been the youngest Beatle, but from early on he struggled toward the melancholy wisdom of later life. There was gravity even in his love songs. The stately tempos in Something...
...believe the eight dead journalists are policy; I don't think they're random. [The defeated Taliban] are filled with a bitter hatred of the West, and they see us as an extension of the army with which they are at war. We're squarely in the cross hairs...
...schools to pack their bags for Allston, the University must be willing to make these Cambridge liabilities into Allston incentives by guaranteeing enough money to make an attractive Allston campus a reality. Brand new buildings, expanded working and living space and a lush, attractive campus would sweeten the bitter pill of moving to a new home. Every month that is lost before the relocation decision is made hinders University planners; it is difficult for schools to make progress on development plans if they do not know where they’ll be five years down the road. The central administration...
...Hosfield ’05), the protagonist, is a successful but unhappy Hollywood producer, who has succumbed to the lure of fame and fortune, abandoning his true love, songwriting. His “old friend” Mary Flynn (Sarahn M. Wheeler ’03) has become a bitter alcoholic, unable to write another best-seller or suffer the A-list crowd that surrounds her. The last member of the central trio is Charley Kringas (Christian E. Lerch ’04), Frank’s one-time best friend and writing partner. Charley is the only...