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...football team, already the owners of the Ivy League Championship. We look forward to watching the hurricane that is the undefeated Harvard football team make short work of the pasty and feeble Bulldogs. And we pray for the safety of tens of thousands of loyal Harvard fans who will descend upon New Haven, braving the crack dealers, prostitutes and other prestigious Yale alumni to cheer on their undefeated team...
There must be something else about the books that keeps people coming back for more, that makes seemingly rational people descend in hordes upon bookstores at midnight just to get the latest book at literally the minute it is released. As strong as the desire to be able to participate in water cooler Harry Potter talk is, the content of the books is their biggest appeal; it retains readers and leaves them eagerly anticipating the next book. Once you read the first one, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, you are hooked, and as more and more...
...Thursday, Subin entered the elevator on the sixth floor and it started to descend, but then jerked to a halt...
...towns before the anticipated U.S. attack, and Afghanistan is in the throes of a humanitarian crisis that could be more devastating than the air strikes to come. Already, more than 2 million refugees are in Pakistan, and a million more are poised to flood in. Some 500,000 may descend on Iran and the Central Asian republics...
...hair, and in taxis we put our lives in the hands of other random strangers who may or may not speak our language or know where they're going. We walk down sidewalks insanely dense with people and data, sidestepping peddlers, beggars, dog turds and gaping steel holes that descend into basement caverns. We live in a teeming throng, exposed. And we like it that way. Because life in the open has two sides: we make ourselves vulnerable to ugliness and annoyance and danger because that's the price of remaining vulnerable to serendipity and beauty and even...