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...come and go, papers are written. There are no sounds, however faint, of other people leaving for class or coming back, singing in the shower, complaining to each other, going to meals: The collective rhythm is completely absent and so, as a result, morning comes and goes in the blink of a whole novel (who knew there were so many hours before noon?) or is lost...
What went wrong? Eiland has one of the army's keenest analytical minds. He speaks almost entirely in neatly memorized lists, usually organized in fives. His clear, blue eyes don't blink as he runs through the army's mistakes. Foremost is Israel's failure to acquire nonlethal weapons for riot control. At riots on the edges of every Palestinian town, the army progresses quickly from tear gas to rubber-coated metal bullets to live ammunition--though Eiland says the last step comes only when a soldier feels his life is clearly in danger or when Palestinians open fire...
Seeing that the Crimson scored in the blink of an eyelash, the Bears had to suffer through six frustrated penalties, only scoring once in seven chances. The Harvard penalty kill broke up the Brown power play all night long, having more shots on net on some of them than the Bears...
Part of my Thanksgiving weekend was spent watching the MTV/Rolling Stone special on the top 100 pop songs of all time. It was a bit suspicious that so many MTV-friendly songs were on the list, though. Is Blink-182's "All the Small Things" really one of the best 100 pop songs ever written, or was that just an excuse to show naked men in a video? Still, that's part of the point, I suppose-lists are fascinating because you can argue with them. So if you need more material to argue with, Julian's Rocklist Site (www.rocklist.net...
Harvard came out of the locker room after the intermission with something to prove; in almost the blink of an eye the game went from close to over...