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...argument grows repetitive after a while, lapsing into conservative rhetoric and reaching its nadir with a drawn-out chapter on the campus tumult of the ’60s, complete with tiresome condemnations of “parlor liberals...
...Musharraf can ill afford a drawn-out guerrilla war in Baluchistan. His armies are already tied down with guarding the India-Pakistan border, while another 70,000 troops are combing the mountains along the Afghan border for al-Qaeda fighters. Yet the government needs to pacify the Baluch warriors. It has plans to expand gas exploration, allow a pipeline to run across Baluchistan from Iran to India, and, with Chinese help, it is building a multimillion dollar port at Gwadar?all of which incenses the Baluch tribesmen who are worried that, once again, they will...
...section times in the humanities and the high volume of laboratory work in science courses often interferes with their athletic commitments. When it comes to course selection, athletes are constrained by practice and game schedules, and allegiance to a team often entails making sacrifices in academic ambition, or long, drawn-out negotiations with teaching fellows and tutorial leaders...
...clock in the morning, after Paul Hamm won the first individual all-around gold medal in the history of U.S. men's gymnastics, after he waved the hardware for the cameras and took a long, drawn-out drug test, he finally talked to his parents from the athletes' Village. Mom was not in a coddling mood. "Paul," said Cecily Hamm, who raised three gymnasts, including Paul's twin brother and fellow Olympian Morgan, "you put us all through hell tonight." They had a laugh at that one. "Mom, listen," he responded. "I put myself through hell...
...convention itself is a little bit like that. Quick moments of excitement, followed by disappointing, drawn-out periods of choreographed ritual and meticulously planned ceremony...