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...from losing confidence and withdrawing into defensive isolation, Americans declared their determination to defeat the forces of terror and intimidation. A lame-duck mayor of New York galvanized his stunned city and inspired the world with his example. A minority President dismissed by much of the world as unfit for the office replied to the attacks with measured military might, routing the Taliban regime and liberating Afghanistan from the grip of medieval oppression. Most of the free world - and most of the Islamic world - approved of the action. Fears of widespread civilian casualties and a massive Muslim backlash failed...
...economics concentrator in Adams House, is a student who has never been able to pay attention in class. Rather than sleeping or talking to the girl behind him, Collin found it stimulating to draw in the margins of his classwork pictures of his English teacher, who looked like a duck. Since the production of these anthropomorphic caricatures, the fledgling artist has aspired to work as an editorial cartoonist, so as to focus his attention toward good use. While little of Collin’s work will depict the Faculty and staff as ducks or swans, it will focus on national...
...translucent glass that looks like ice. One is tuna accompanied by horseradish sorbet, colder and more crystalline than the traditional horseradish in cream. Among our other favorites were a soup of sea urchin, seared foie gras and watermelon; and hot smoked arctic char with octopus, mushroom, buckwheat ragout and duck consomme...
...mysteries don't get much juicier than the one surrounding Nong Duc Manh, Vietnam's 61-year-old leader: Is the new Communist Party Secretary-General the love child of the country's founding father, Ho Chi Minh? That's been a long standing rumor, and Manh managed to duck the question through his 15-year rise through the ranks to the country's most powerful position. "We are all Uncle Ho's children," was Manh's clever, standard answer...
...Waxman's line of questioning is exactly the kind of inquiry that White House officials say the public has no patience for. Lengthy probes into the provenance of a few sentences in an already aging federal report, they add, is the sort of duck soup that turned voters off about Washington and politics for much of the Clinton era. Republicans believe this in part because they learned that lesson the hard way. The party's take-no-prisoners wing is still smarting a bit from 1998, when it did not realize until too late that its drive for Bill Clinton...