Word: carp
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...peace," Benjamin Franklin wrote to Josiah Quincy in 1773, expressing a simple truth that helps explain why Americans cheer so loudly as the victorious soldiers march through the center of town, leaving behind a trail of limp ticker tape, burst balloons -- and grumbling pundits. Some people will carp at the giddy excess and point out that the U.S. is cheering while the gulf still burns. They may be overlooking something that has changed in the way Americans think about themselves and what their country has achieved by war. It is at least possible that the great postwar party...
...restaurant sits near the banks of the Tigris River, from which fishermen haul out the masgouf -- the big carp that are cooked over wood fires and served as a local favorite. Our guest, just days before the war, was a young man who had been translating the Iraqi press so that we could understand what the government was telling its people. He arrived a bit late...
News Editor for This Issue: Joseph R. Palmore '91 Night Editors: Seth A. Gitell '91 Joseph R. Palmore '91 Philip P. Pan '93 Joshua W. Shenk '93 Jeffrey C. Wu '92 Editorial Editor: John A. Cloud '93 Feature Editor: Matthew M. Hoffman '91 Sports Editor: Josie Carp '94 Michael R. Grunwald '92 Michael D. Stankiewicz '90-'91 Photo Editor: Liane M. Clamen '92 Business Editor: Robert M. Kim '93 Copy Editor: Jodie A. Malmberg