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...they will eventually filter into our collective aesthetic, in geekier and less elegant forms. In order to handle this contingency, I offer you: THREE ANKLE-HIGH TIPS 1) Do not pretend that you are not wearing ankle boots by covering them up with jeans. Not only does this completely defeat the purpose of ankle boots but it also makes you look like Axl Rose when he tried to sport cornrows. It is that bad of an idea. 2) Wear your ankle boots with leggings. Then go on a Venetian gondola and get molested by a tiger. 3) Do not wear...
...been successful enough with my picks to enforce linear narration.Best of luck, choose wisely, and you might go 4-0. But beware the fire-breathing troll! NO. 23 HARVARD (5-1, 2-1 Ivy) AT DARTMOUTH (1-5, 1-2)Harvard, fresh off a heart-breaking defeat in Princeton on Saturday, hasn’t lost back-to-back games in over a year. Dartmouth, which picked up its first victory of the season against Columbia that same day, hasn’t won consecutive games since 2003. If that’s all you need to know, skip...
Last Saturday, the Crimson fell, 31-28, in a heartbreaking defeat at the hands of No. 12 Princeton, ending its undefeated season and nine-game winning streak, as well as diminishing its chances for the Ivy League title...
...Zarifi, of Human Rights Watch in New York City, said NATO's military offensive, which has relied heavily on airpower due to a shortage of ground troops, had caused serious resentment among Afghans and been counterproductive. "The Soviets tried and failed to defeat Afghan guerrillas by using massive firepower, so we know clearly that that is not the way to win in Afghanistan," he said. "You have to win the populace over, not kill it." But NATO spokesman Mark Laity defended NATO's strategy in the south, saying it was important that NATO showed they could win militarily against...
Meanwhile, the official celebrations were taking place last Tuesday as the executive branch rejoiced over its success in its long-running battle for control over the treatment of terrorists by the use of military commissions. June of this year had brought a bitter defeat for the administration in the Supreme Court case Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, which rejected the legitimacy of military tribunals and their suspension of constitutional rights. But the new Military Commissions Act now hands the president even more power than he held before this summer’s hiccup, and paves the way for more extreme behaviors...