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...math: South Korea is expecting 140,000 visitors during the World Cup but has only 40,000 hotel rooms and 10,000 homestays. The government has had to enlist thousands of love hotels to plug the gap. They are called "budget inns" on the official accommodation website, worldinn.com, but most are the kind that rent rooms by the hour?up to a maximum of four hours?and where guests slip in through entrances artfully hidden behind massive potted plants. Worried that foreigners may get the wrong idea, the government recently ordered the hotels to abide by some decency rules: they...
...saying that there was like a huge fucking Harvard-Yale sex orgy last time he went to New Haven. He also said Yale girls are super-hot, and really impressed by Harvard guys. Im definitely gonna score! When confronted about his prevarications, Seaver tried to enlist his resident tutor in a pantsless trip to the vending machine...
...created by NAS in 1970 to enlist members of the health professions in examining health policy issues. It currently has 1,429 members, including Fineberg...
...object of Bush's U.N. speech is, presumably, to enlist active, enthusiastic support from allies whose help will be vital to destroy al Qaeda. This puts the U.S. in the unusual position of actually needing not just the passive consent, but the active assistance from Arab and Muslim countries, and the developing world in general. The Europeans, Japan, Canada and Australia may be able to help shoulder most of the military needs of a protracted campaign in Afghanistan, but combating bin Laden's own counterattacks requires the total engagement of the law enforcement and intelligence communities of the countries...
...guerrilla who lost his right foot to a land mine while helping rout the Soviets. He left Afghanistan during the post-Soviet power struggle and renounced politics after his wife and son were murdered in his Peshawar, Pakistan, home. But he recently returned to the Afghan frontier, hoping to enlist defectors and warlords in an anti-Taliban southern alliance. Because he was Pashtun--the dominant tribe of southern Afghanistan and the Taliban itself--Haq was a precious asset to the U.S., which desperately wants an erosion of Taliban authority in the south and east, where American commandos have launched...