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...exact same spot where, four decades earlier, Czechoslovakia's communists confiscated his grandfather's meat shop. His headcheese became a sought-after delicacy, praised for being uniquely ungreasy and lean (one secret: he uses pork knees). Then about six years ago, business started to flag. Supermarket chains, able to command lower purchasing prices from suppliers, squeezed Hlavácek's profits by selling at big discounts. So Hlavácek, now 51 and employing 10, tried to counter the only way he could: better customer service. He converted part of his shop to a stand-up diner, and broadened...
...started out like so many others for U.S. counterinsurgency forces in Afghanistan: monitoring the airwaves for enemy communications. From the southeastern part of the country, the U.S. picked up a signal from the phone of a small-time Taliban commander, Mullah Wazir, whose band was suspected of ambushing road crews in an effort to halt reconstruction of the pitted Kabul-to-Kandahar highway. When Wazir's phone flickered to life, the U.S. traced it to a mud-walled fortress near the town of Ghazni. The U.S. command at Bagram air base outside Kabul quickly dispatched an A-10 Warthog fighter...
Kate Davis exhibited a strong command of the stage as the vengeful goddess Athena; so did Andres X. Lopez, explosive and powerful in the title role. Aoife E. Spillane-Hinks ’06 contributed a convincing and heartfelt Tekmessa, adding an emotional richness and color that the play couldn’t have done without. Matthew Roop-Kharasch’s Teukros was solidly acted and sensitive in its attention to the rest of the cast. Director Brian R. Fairley ’05 put in delightfully sleazy and callous appearances as Menelaos and Agamemnon, providing necessary comic contrast...
...must first focus inwardly; in the words of Funakoshi: “First of all, know yourself, then know others.” With history’s greatest, ranging from Shakespeare to the Buddha, from Socrates to Gandhi, imploring us to yield to the age-old Delphic command, “know thyself,” the time is ripe for students to cease rattling off the negatives of a creative writing concentration’s “navel-gazing” and recognize the veritas it offers...
...satellites on targets inside the United States, and that legislation may be required to set the rules. Since September 11, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's spy satellites have been increasingly pointed inside U.S. borders in support of the Pentagon's new Northern Command, charged with protecting the homeland. The agency's officials insist they don't target American citizens. The question, said the source familiar with the panel's work, is: ?How do we use the technology of today to monitor the activities of citizens in a manner that protects civil freedoms...