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...while past HoCo tailgates took place in fields adjacent to the stadium, this year’s HoCo tailgate-revelry might relocate to the far-off Ohiri Fields...
...knew about the history," she said afterwards, all smiles. "I just wanted to swim well and show some of Zimbabwe's soul. And now I've got the full package!" Not to mention a quintessentially Olympian story about a girl from Harare who represented her country in a far-off land, and entered the annals of the sporting greats. Not every ending in the Games' first week was so happy. The Greeks wanted to move beyond the embarrassment of the missed drug tests (and mysterious, possibly staged, motorcycle accident) of sprinters Konstantinos Kenteris and Katerina Thanou. Both quit the Games...
...addition. The lonely quadling waiting outside Johnston Gate for a Harvard shuttle is already confused by the presence of public buses run by the city, blue-and-red vehicles destined for Wellesley and its “treasures”—even Harvard-run shuttles going to far-off places like the Business School instead of comfortable Cabot or Currier House. These things should not be confusing. But to those living in a land where a creaky set of buses can pass for a Silver subway line (we wouldn’t like to see what they call...
MacArthur, in his time, was rather lucky that the American public was so squarely behind the war, and that the law of the land gave him the authority to censor the news media as he pleased. Now, with the American populace enjoying the carnival-like violence emanating from a far-off place—and with a slate of Democratic hopefuls egging them on—an otherwise normal postwar reconstruction has turned into a bloody hell...
...Mylroie is nothing if not single-minded. Over the years she has connected some pretty far-off dots to Iraq, none more so than the Oklahoma City bombing. Last summer she said on MSNBC, "al-Qaeda is a front for Iraqi intelligence, and that's why it is so difficult to get it, and that's why it can do the things that it did, like 9/11." Mylroie refuses to accept that international terrorism is possible without state sponsorship - the very idea, she says, is an invention of wussy Clintonites afraid to make war on state sponsors. But as Perle...