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Someone once told Michael B. Jobbins ’04 that he was from the boil on the ass of America. Comments like this aren’t unusual when you live in New Jersey, a place alternately referred to as the armpit of America, New York’s garbage dump and turnpike heaven. Finally Jobbins and his two roommates, Albert J. Lim ’04 and Ryan G. White ’04, decided that they had enough of the abuse, that it was time to fight back on behalf of their mid-Atlantic home. They founded...
...critically acclaimed recording artist is a bland, established fact. To call him a creative, engaging performer is better. To call the vocalist a singularly talented virtuoso still cannot completely capture the music that swirls once he takes the stage, but it’s pretty close. You could boil Bobby McFerrin down to trivia: collaborations with Yo-Yo Ma, Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock. Or cite numbers: a Billboard number one single, ten grammys, twenty million copies and seemingly infinite praise or genres: jazz, pop, classical, gospel. But even the sum total of these elements could not hope...
...lower the boil, Bush issued invitations instead of threats. Standing in a gleaming unused train station at the dead end of a line meant to connect both halves of the peninsula, he beckoned the North to link their tracks to all of the riches of democracy on the other side of the Demilitarized Zone. Privately, the administration told South Korean officials that they would be reaching out in more formal ways in the coming weeks. Bush also asked Chinese leader Jiang Zemin for help making the connections ,just as he'd tapped Japanese leaders two days before in Tokyo...
India and Pakistan's fifty-year hot-and-cold-running war is coming to a boil again. Sources tell CNN that Pakistan, saying it was only responding to India's movements, mobilized its entire army - even calling up some recent retirees - and put it on high alert Wednesday. Both sides have sent reinforcing troops and short-range missile batteries to military positions along the two nuclear nations' mountainous border...
...attention. At the same time, that frenzy ginned up expectations so absurdly extravagant that they will be hard to live up to. There is a very real possibility that for those whose only experience of the Segway is on TV or in the press, the reaction to it may boil down to five lethal words: Is that all it is? And that possibility is only enhanced by the fact that to many eyes giving the photos only a cursory glance, a Segway doesn't look like a revolution. It looks...well, sorta like a scooter...