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...love Arts First! We love the band!” a group of garishly-dressed cross-dressers from the Hasty Pudding Theatricals chanted over the drumbeat and cheering spectators...
...made their most violent stands.. The Marine-led assault on the city was intended to deliver to the enemy fighters their long-delayed reckoning in what the U.S. billed as the latest critical offensive in its campaign to "liberate" Iraq. But even for those accustomed to the unending drumbeat of sorrow in Iraq, the grim scenes of urban warfare in Fallujah, where hundreds were said to have died, took a heavy toll--and the news for the U.S. in the rest of Iraq was not all that encouraging either...
...drumbeat of attacks by insurgents is continuing, averaging 17 a day against U.S. soldiers and Iraqis working with them. There are also attacks against Western civilians, although the number is unknown. At dawn one February morning, two grenades hit a house in western Baghdad where Westerners lived. (The armed guards outside refused to tell TIME what the residents did for a living.) Elsewhere, foreign firms operate with no signs on their doors, and their personnel drive their cars into gated yards blocked from street view. Mulhern, well built and well dressed, with his head fashionably shaved, says he began feeling...
...says. “It’s a true sign of masculinity.” Her roommate, Cecilia Castillo ’07, believes that Cozzens’ unicycling is a statement of personal individuality—or someone who bikes to his own drumbeat. “The unicycle is pastel lime green. That makes it more unusual, especially with all these people walking by,” she says. Mahraj replies, “[The unicycle] would be more serious if it were black, but at lime green it’s like a clown...
Many economists agree with him. Anything that makes an economy more efficient tends to help in the long run. But in reducing job losses to macroeconomic landfill, Mankiw handed Democrats an issue. His words, accompanied by an ominous drumbeat, are now immortalized on the AFL-CIO's website, just before an image of a beaming John Kerry, who won the union's endorsement last week...