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...Nasrallah is one of the Arab world's great orators, but he was almost matched at the event by Mughniyah's 18-year-old son, Jihad. Dressed in crisp camouflage uniform and forage cap, Jihad Mughniyah marched briskly onto the stage and delivered a confident and impassioned speech, pledging that "the strugglers of my father and myself are ready to continue in his footsteps." The rhetoric even had hard-nosed Hizballah security men and top rank party officials dabbing their eyes with handkerchiefs as the audience burst into applause and cheers at the end of the speech...
...halftime. They let local elementary school kids run a five on five for 8 minutes. The kids are having the time of their lives and the crowd cheers after every basket. Take me back to elementary school where I could watch Power Rangers all day and munch on Cookie Crisp...
...months ago, I was convinced that my husband had lost his mind. Preparing to leave for his job as a Wall Street accountant one morning, he wore his usual crisp black suit, a BlackBerry in his pocket and a new accessory: an unkempt 8 o'clock shadow. "I am growing a beard," he explained. "They are sooo in right...
...bright sun, the cold crisp air, the thrill of schussing down a snow-packed mountain surrounded by powder and pine. On the surface, there would seem to be few better ways to celebrate Nordic nature than with a ski vacation--until you consider the wildlife displaced by the trails, the ecosystems destroyed by artificial snow and the energy-hungry lifts, snow machines and hotels that are an integral part of a skiing holiday. Not to mention the miles in the SUV to get everyone there. Ski resorts by their very nature have a pretty big carbon footprint. They are also...
...process is inverted: first, come to the table with a number in mind; afterwards, you can bother with the actual topic and content of the course. The cluttered old catalog, with its idiosyncratic and long-winded descriptive paragraphs following the course titles, has been rendered obsolete by crisp tables of course titles each followed by a chain of 10 numbers. Nowadays, that’s all you need.Students have no doubt been looking for academic shortcuts for as long as learning has been going on, but this latest development tells us something about ourselves that perhaps we?...