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Although he no longer expects a "surrender ceremony on the deck of a battleship," President Bush insists that victory in Iraq is still attainable. He may be right. Unfortunately, history suggests that the only kind of victory within reach is an American-assisted Shi'ite victory over the Sunni minority. And that is likely to be both protracted and very ugly indeed...
...University. Shirley Tilghman runs Princeton. Amy Gutmann runs the University of Pennsylvania. Ruth Simmons runs Brown. All have been mentioned as possible contenders for the Harvard presidency. I make no comment on Hyman’s skills as provost, which are surely considerable. But must your headline stack the deck against the other candidates (all those listed above have greater experience being “#1” and not just “#2” than Steven Hyman) so quickly...
...lives in the Swiss town of Brig-Glis, which is shut out from the sun for two months each winter. He was expecting more from the mirror. "I thought you'd feel the warmth. It's more like a flashlight," he says, looking up and squinting. "I was expecting deck chairs and umbrellas, and cold drinks." A group of five men, including two building engineers, come to scout the project for the Italian town of Selvetta, where things are even darker - nearly four sunless months each winter. Like Viganella residents, they complain more of high heating bills than of depression...
...National Football League's storied record book as if it were a piece of junk mail, is the best football player in the world? Let's step into his classroom. Lesson One: take a trip to the local variety store, where you can find a whirring fan and a deck of cards. "There's this trick where you throw a card up in the air when a fan is blowing and you try to catch it," Tomlinson, the San Diego Chargers running back, explains in his Texas drawl. The man is not fooling around. He does the trick twice...
...three voices singing as one can sound than this album by the New Jersey sibs: soprano Terre, contralto Maggie and alto Suzzy. The sisters' neo-traditional sound works wonders on a range of Christmas songs. A third of the 24 cuts are of secular songs, including a Caribbean-flavored "Deck the Halls," a "Sleigh Ride" whose percussion is horse-clop tongue clicks and a very heavily Brooklyn-accented "Winter Wonderland." Even the infectious title track has an folk-rocky vibe. Overall, though, the program is liturgical, the tone inspirational, the impact indelible...