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Chafen C. Watkins ’03 wanted to take a shower on Wednesday morning, but was unwilling to brave the frigid water she encountered, so she did without...
...soldiers, brave and resourceful though they may be, will be able to do little to head off a looming humanitarian disaster. Afghanistan is one of the poorest, most war-racked and drought-ridden places on earth. So far, humanitarian drops of food by U.S. planes have had little impact on the food shortage. A man from Nangarhar province who arrived in Peshawar last week told doctors that some people in his village were afraid to open the food parcels; during the Soviet war, many Afghans were maimed by toys and packets of cigarettes dropped from planes--and booby-trapped with...
Yardstick submits that Columbus was as brave as all the myths and rhyming couplets say he was. Columbus was a fanatical leader with a superior sense of Manifest Destiny, like Hemingway with more focus, like Kepler with a better-developed sense of history, like Rousseau with more diplomatic facility. Columbus’ lifetime achievements are monumental: He captured the faltering imagination of Western Europe. He gave to her people the only the thing that could resuscitate her failing fortunes: hope...
...they still don't have phones and that people uptown are getting pedicures done as though nothing has changed. "She's trying to isolate herself," says a downtown refugee of her uptown sister-in-law. "She doesn't want to accept reality at all." Meanwhile some uptown people feel brave for not having sold their condos and decamped for Vermont. Others have...
...brave souls who try to forecast the U.S. economy spend much of their time looking backward for data and precedents. So when TIME's Board of Economists gathered in New York City, its members referred often to the last time the nation was steeling itself for war: 1990-91, between the invasion of Kuwait and Operation Desert Storm. Back then, a relatively quick military victory helped spark the longest economic expansion in U.S. history. In today's protracted campaign against terrorism, few expect a decisive win that could trigger a quick rebound...