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...melange of undergraduates, grad students, and professors ranging from Crimson columnist Lucy M. Caldwell ’09 to special guest Jeremy P. Varon, a friend of John’s and a professor of history at Drew University. McMillian begins the conversation. “We need to drain the swamp that breeds this radical ideology,” he says, referring to the groups of radical terrorists Islamists. “But how do you drain the swamp?” asks Thomas H. Baranga, an economics teaching fellow and tutor in Quincy. And of course, the conversation...
...analysts are impressed by the scale of its economic transformation. Says Gerald Knaus of the European Stability Initiative, an independent think tank, "We are seeing the transformation of an agrarian society into an industrial economy. If this continues, in 10 years' time Turkey will be much less of a drain on Europe than the E.U. currently thinks...
...pulmonary embolism less than two weeks later. For a month, Cassady couldn't look at the containers in her freezer because the sight of the unused milk was too hard to bear. "It wasa very difficult time," she says. Her husband, Bill, finally poured them down a sink drain while...
...scored 15 points but also turned the ball over nine times. Fairfield took the lead once again, but Harvard fought back, and a Finelli three-pointer brought about yet another tie. Finelli led the Crimson with 20 points and seven rebounds. This effort seemed to drain Harvard of any energy it had left. Following Finelli’s shot, the Stags would regain the lead and never relinquish it. “After we tied it we just didn’t have very much fight to take the lead and keep pushing after that,” Hallion said...
...Iraq war ought to be happy for two such prominent converts. So why is their conversion so enraging? Well, first, howzabout an apology? It's maddening that there's no cost for being wrong, even when it translates into thousands of people dead and billions of dollars down the drain. In our culture of value-free celebrity, in which a famous ax murderer equals a famous actress equals a famous Nobel Peace Prize winner, Adelman and Perle have merely earned another 15 minutes as hot guests on the talk shows. They have reason to be pleased, having deserted the Bush...