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...designed to weaken the Taliban’s power bases and minimize its ability to resist, preparing the way for future ground efforts against the terrorists, who have almost certainly burrowed into protective positions in Afghanistan’s rugged terrain. But at this stage, we neither know the exact effect of our opening volley nor how long the fighting will last...
This trivialization of musicality sharpens the focus on the lyrical content of the songs, which is in turn supposed to be biting and irreverent social criticism. The point here is to revolt, to exact change and progress from a stubborn status quo and from an unwitting and unthinking society that abides by that status quo. And from this it follows that any attempts to popularize one’s music are to be avoided at all costs. The Descendents rather acutely capture the geist that we’re working towards here: “We never did a popular...
Unsurprisingly, this economics concentrator’s game of choice is poker—Texas Hold’em, to be exact. He used to play with his own money, but that stopped when he met a wealthy man looking for a player to back. Impressed with his natural ability, the man offered to pay him a fixed rate to play in high stakes games. “Under his money, I played amongst the biggest players in the world,” he recalls. “The structure of the game was ‘10/20 no-limit...
...Crimson readily accepted a chance to compete in this weekend’s Tom Fallon Invitational in South Bend. Even though players were competing on an individual basis, the tournament still gave the Harvard team an opportunity to exact some revenge...
Clearly, if we have had little insight into the exact nature of President Bush’s plan, that is because it has not yet been finalized. There are more hawkish members of the administration who would like to begin attacking all terrorist supporters, beginning with Iraq. Some want to avoid a ground war in Afghanistan; others don?...