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...about the sacred nature of hospitality. These ideas of mutual obligation, almost unto ruin, were antique in Shakespeare's day, and are alien to our own. Thus Bedford wisely plays the extravagant Timon as a bit of a buffoon, easily gulled, while his fair-weather friends are made more foul by licentious excess...
...something straight: No honest person can describe coffee as "fruity," let alone "full of conviction." A fairer description is "foul, acidic, bitter, tooth-staining, heartburn-causing and chemically addictive." That applies to "Dota Blend" just as accurately as to Dunkin Donuts' 50-cent special. It is instructive to note that for decades, conventional wisdom had it that coffee caused ulcers. (In fact, the real culprit was H. pylori bacteria.) If coffee doesn't rot out your gut, it tastes like it should...
American troops back from Somalia say they weren't surprised by the physical hardships: poisonous snakes and malarial mosquitoes, wilting heat and foul water. What came as a shock was the sniper fire against bulldozer drivers trying to clear roads for food convoys. And the viciousness of the clan warfare they found themselves caught up in from the moment they arrived. And the sight of their comrades going home in coffins...
When Captain John Anderson flew into Kismayu last December, the door of his C-141 air transport opened to admit a blast of foul air. "It was the smell of rotting flesh," he recalls. Not far from the airstrip was a pile of partly dismembered bodies in a shallow mass grave, victims of a local warlord. In some places, Somalis who at first welcomed the Americans became resentful when they realized that the U.S. would not simply wipe out the warlords who were terrorizing them. At the same time, soldiers found themselves in mortal danger whenever they seemed...
Associate Registrar Thurston A. Smith said that his office is still in the process of investigating the foul...