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...brink of a decisive battle for Baghdad," Lieberman said on the Senate floor. But that was wrong too: the counterinsurgency tactics General Petraeus will use are gradual, not "decisive" in the traditional military sense. We are not on the brink of anything except a long hard slog. I suspect Lieberman understands this but is hyping the mission for dramatic effect. If so, he is raising unfair expectations for the troops and the nation. I'd say that comes pretty damn close to undermining the mission...
...still happily dating nearly three thousand hours later...The tone was perhaps slightly less romantic at the Harvard Ski Club’s Ski Trip, where one freshman opportunist happily jumped between the beds of three junior ladies—nothing keeps the cold out better than young blood...Except for porn, apparently, as the guy at Noch’s excitedly articulated in front of stunned customers. It almost makes you wish you’d taken Spanish...Nudie “art” also made an appearence in a sociology class on Wednesday, as a voyeuristic student...
...social norms” approach to alcohol abuse, theorizing that since “college students tend to grossly overestimate the number of their peers who engage in high-risk alcohol consumption,” providing data will correct this misconception and make people think twice before drinking. Great, except that if anyone stops and thinks twice at these numbers, it becomes abundantly clear that they mean absolutely nothing. Seriously, jack shit. Let’s look at the most touted one: “69% of Harvard students keep track of how many drinks they consume when...
...pants are in, meaning that you cannot click your heels up with glee and smash your Tae Bo tape with your instep, as you were wont to do if you had only read the first part of this sentence. Cigarette pants are like a trouser version of skinny jeans except they show your cellulite more. Thus you must work out harder with less reward and repeat to yourself the mantra “I love my body and myself” as you throw yourself on your bed trying desperately to zip these babies up. Good luck to you.This...
...friend of mine whose flight was supposed to leave before mine.“Good,” I thought. “If she’s still here, then I’ll be fine for my flight.”That would have been great, except for the fact that she had missed hers. We exchanged a few brief words before I got in the check-in line. After checking my luggage and receiving my boarding pass, I got to security. It was getting closer and closer to the moment of truth.5:35…5:40?...