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Shortly after the collision I raised the periscope and looked back to see what we had collided with. I was dumb struck. I had no idea any other vessel was in the area. I saw it listing to starboard and back to the stern. I remember crying out, "God, please get them off that ship." Within a minute or two it was upright and going down. I was begging God to get them off--and it was as if something died inside...
Hawaneen arrived at the Herat camp a month ago after selling his plow and even the tin roof off his house to pay for the journey. Now, in the barren, sand-blown camp, Hawaneen crouches against the wind and watches in dumb agony as a Muslim cleric lays the bony, starved corpse of his eight-year-old son on a plastic sheet spread on the ground and washes him for burial...
...contrast with this year. The slogan, "New Beijing, Great Olympics," is upbeat and focuses on the city. The bid committee considered "New Beijing, New Olympics," but wisely chose not to be seen reinventing a competition that started in ancient Greece (and it rejected "Great Wall, Great Olympics" as plain dumb). The committee has also chartered a new bus?with a bar and computer outlets on board?for visiting I.O.C. delegates. Streets are lined with 100,000 bid posters and brightened up with huge urns of fake carnations, presently covered with plastic sheets to keep off the soot. The People...
...turns out the reason I take any bet, no matter how long the odds, is not that I am very, very dumb but that each wager is a challenge to my masculinity, and that, for those who are not regular readers of this column, is something about which I'm a little insecure. It's the same reason men day-trade and look at pornography. I know that last part doesn't make sense, but I'm always searching for an excuse for the porn thing...
...been copying it ever since. In a thousand different ways, we all learn the rudiments of romantic love from popular culture. Kids learn how to kiss and flirt from the movies and TV, and then spend the rest of their lives trying to live up to dumb clichés they learned as children...