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...they are feared, and their poverty, their presence, is a constant, weighty shadow that creeps along the edges of cosmopolitan San Jose. They will not be forgotten as long as even taxi drivers, that typically fearless breed of city dweller, refuse to set foot in their ramshackle villages in broad daylight. Their festering humanity, heartrending as it is to the eye, has its virtue in visibility...
...festivals as possible, and how best to gain an appreciation for the River Cam. But unexpectedly, my encounters have got me thinking about my education and that perhaps the real value of a liberal arts education lies somewhere beyond the traditional claim that its value is in having a broad field of knowledge...
...outright invent history, but often it is made by the questions we ask. Few figures have provoked more questions than Abraham Lincoln, both because of his broad importance and his fantastic complexity. And few figures have proved so malleable...
...unkempt appearance and awkward demeanor, that he was a rube. His obvious discomfort in formal clothes on ceremonial occasions and his constant fidgeting with his ill-fitting kid gloves did little to dispel those misgivings. Moreover, he insisted on entertaining sophisticated visitors by telling country stories in a broad hoosier accent. Wall Street lawyer George Templeton Strong wrote in his diary after their first meeting that the President was a "barbarian," a "yahoo." And Strong liked...
...blue Isuzu pickup truck, with his revolver tucked into the dashboard. Linked by deep, zigzag trenches, Gon Kha's bunkers look down upon a handful of fortified U.W.S.A. positions, the closest about 500 meters away. Around 800 U.W.S.A. soldiers charged up Gon Kha's steep, unforested flanks, sometimes in broad daylight?a suicidal tactic even for the battle-hardened Wa. Yawd Serk claims that some were drugged?a search of U.W.S.A. bodies, he says, revealed pills of methamphetamine, a powerful narcotic generally known by the Thai name yaba (crazy medicine). Others were simply too young to know better. "Some...