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...lights went out, I had been reading a colleague's article in TIME ("Can Thor Make a Comeback?" Dec. 16) that described how ancient religions have at last found their way to the Internet. There seemed something funny and very American about insisting that eternity must scramble to catch up with progress--God's obligation to gadgets. It is the Stout Cortez Syndrome, the New World habit of needing a procession of new worlds, transformative revelations following upon one another like new-model cars...
...three days, my computer sprang back to life, chipper, as if nothing had happened. I found myself wishing that a hard snow would fall on Seattle. Bill Gates and his geek brigades, I thought, need to sit in the dark for a while, or to light oil lamps and catch up on their reading...
...thousands of dollars in scholarships, summer travel around the world, and an opportunity to serve my country. I just have to sign up for the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC), and the letter reminds me in big, bold letters: “What’s the catch? There is none!” Why, that’s swell...
There is a catch, of course, if you’re a boy who happens to dig other boys. So twice a year, I shred a letter and mail it back to Captain Sullivan with a polite request to be taken off his mailing list. It’s become something of a ritual, since I keep getting the letters, keep sending them back in tiny pieces, and keep getting stoic silence from Captain Sullivan. I’m sure he secretly enjoys it as much as I do, or else he’d probably stop wasting the military?...
...blown array by the wind. In fact, a couple of goal kicks and punts from freshman goalie Jarret Leech simply were blown out of bounds before they even reached the midline. Despite the Crimson’s obvious advantage that helped it get a number of early chances to catch the Bears struggling to adapt to the conditions, in the end Brown captured the upwind break to go up 1-0.“The strategy in the first half was try to get it in behind them as quickly as we could and when we did that...