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...rigueur for the Kabul social set, though conversations tend toward war stories rather than the latest charity ball. In fact, so central is L'Atmo to the lives of the Afghan capital's foreign community, Victor and Cressaty have opened a branch in Kabul's sandbag-ringed NATO compound. This is so that troops - who aren't allowed around town without a humvee escort - can get a decent meal with relative ease. To quote the restaurateurs' compatriot, Napoleon Bonaparte, "an army marches on its stomach." Dishes like L'Atmo's almond trout, duck breast with peaches or grilled king prawns...
American dads, moms and kids watch a softball game in a Middle East compound. BOOM! go the terrorist bombs, and dozens are killed. Local soldiers stop a suspicious car at a checkpoint. BRAAAAAT! spits the evildoers' gunfire, and the soldiers are dead. Back at the ballfield death scene, an ambulance drives off, carrying the wounded. KA-BLAM! A suicide bomber was inside. From the roof of a building a mile or so away, the masterminds of these atrocities record it all on video, for bragging rights later...
When terrorists kill hundreds of Americans in a Saudi Arabian compound, an élite team of fbi agents led by Jamie Foxx flies in to collar the perps. Director Peter Berg cannily hypes the tension and the sentiment in the only one of the current Middle East political movies designed to appeal to the action crowd. Hard truths are absorbed while stuff blows...
...round is a couple of missed four-foot putts, and instead of a top-20 finish, you’re looking at a 50th-place finish,” Mayer said. “When you start missing putts and hitting errant shots, that can build upon itself and compound into more mistakes. Instead of 72, you’re looking at 78.” But the razor-thin margin of error that any golf team must cope with in tournaments also means that Harvard is closer to its best rounds than this week’s numbers suggest...
...College, the gravity of the HIV/AIDS pandemic is not in question; instead, we wonder if it is possible to make a meaningful contribution as students. After all, most of the 40 million infected reside not in Cambridge, but in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. To compound the feeling of helplessness, we see ourselves as only undergraduates, not yet equipped with the tools of physicians or policymakers...