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...teacher Nina Garsoian used to tell me, “Ne drazni gusei! Don’t annoy the geese!” Larry didn’t get the message to stay away from the well-fed flock of lunatic leftist puritanical geese on the Faculty. Apparently he thought being the president of America’s oldest and most prominent university gave him the right to do something other than fundraising—even the right to exercise his First Amendment rights. So in the spring of 2002, lower Manhattan was still a blackened gash left by Islamo...
...unrivaled head of a worldwide flock of one billion Catholics, the Pope can exercise moral, political and spiritual influence across the globe. Granted, his words and gestures are the extent of a pope's earthly power, since as Stalin once famously quipped, he commands no military divisions. Still John Paul maximized his arsenal, which included constant charismatic globetrotting and a deft diplomatic touch. Coming to Rome from behind the Iron Curtain, he knew just what notes to hit - in public and private - to inspire his fellow Poles and others to undermine the Communist regimes...
...students weren’t the only ones to flock to the scene...
...nook and cranny of the store, ranging in style from the 50s through the 80s. “We get a lot of people coming in for parties, mostly on weekends, like every weekend, for 80s parties, 60s parties—a lot of students.” Others flock to the Garment District just for the sake of preserving their wallets. “It’s cheap,” Paul Birkner, 17, said simply, grinning as he sorted through a bin of clothes marked: “T-shirts: $1, Sweats: $2.” Located...
...cold is already taking a toll, as hundreds of enfeebled men, women and children flock to medical camps each day complaining of chest colds, flu and other seasonal ailments. "The quake destroyed the entire private set-up of village doctors and paramedics," says Faisal Edhi, trustee of Karachi-based NGO the Edhi Foundation. "There is a shortage of doctors and nurses, so people now have to travel far to get to the doctors in makeshift medical camps." Because people have no money for fuel, they can't cook meals, adds Rana Khurshid Amed, a Neelum Valley forestry official, "so they...