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...meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong Il [Oct. 17]. Patten, former Hong Kong Governor and European Union Commissioner for External Affairs, wrote, "We banqueted with Kim and a group of grumpy old men, with faces like Christmas walnuts ... We were served much better burgundy than we would have drunk in Brussels. Outside, the people starved." It is unfair to criticize Kim for indulging in excesses while the poor of his country starved since, with the exception of a few European countries, that allegation can be made against the leaders of virtually every nation on the planet. Shaik Ibrahim Madras...
...football team. It seems somewhat pathetic that Yale is forced to take this paternalistic approach to school spirit during a highly publicized game with a rival—and admittedly intimidating—team. Shutting down the tailgate will also be logistically difficult with an unruly group of very drunk students who are not interested in a football game. Instead of these rowdy students trickling in throughout the game, it is more likely that they will storm into the Yale Bowl, drunkenly disturbing the people who are actually interested in the game. Let the tailgaters be tailgaters...
...remember the night it happened…and they enacted it as I wrote it, and it gave me the chills,” Fingleton says. “I remember at the time, even though I was only about 13, looking at my father terribly, hopelessly drunk, and I thought, ‘This is the saddest human being that I’ve ever seen...
...maybe in some places, at some times, that would’ve been okay. But you were not drunk out of your minds at the Quincy Grille, and you were not in one of the middle scenes in “Independence Day”—after everyone decides the world is about to end but before Will Smith saves...
Everybody you meet at Apple will echo that precise sentiment, in almost Stepford-like unison. Not only have they all drunk the Kool-Aid; they all have the same favorite flavor. They're on a hot streak, and they know it. ("The Sony guys are over there across the street with binoculars," jokes a senior vice president. "They rented space on the fourth floor." High-tech trash talk!) It's almost eerie: Apple employees all like one another, and they have a strong sense that they are the chosen of the earth, and they're not going...