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...from 26, or 42 from 41? The journey curves and loops; your age in years seems to detach from your age in experience. You get fired at 32 and feel 12 again, or you're invited to teach for the first time and feel ancient standing in front of all those wide eyes. You circle back on certain ages, replaying them until you get it right. If the middle-school cafeteria is the setting for your recurring nightmares, you can spend decades as a preteen in your head, refining the snappy comeback that you never mastered at the time. What...
Online giving is also problematic in that it tracks very closely with news coverage. An initial flurry of donations follows the initial reports of a disaster, as donors click on links embedded in news stories. But as the stories move off the front page, online donations dry up, even though aid is often still needed. Add to that the issue of some mobile donations not reaching the aid organization for months, and growing electronic donations may cause further distortion to the temporal pattern of relief...
...Luckily for Syria, perhaps, Israel is dragging its feet even more on the peace front. Having separated themselves from an ever hostile Palestinian population by withdrawing from Gaza and walling off the West Bank, the Israelis have lost interest in land-for-peace deals. So not only are Israeli-Palestinian peace talks largely moribund, but the Netanyahu government has dodged Syrian requests for direct talks, calling instead for indirect talks whose goal would be to agree to a cessation of hostilities rather than a return of the Golan Heights. That's a nonstarter for Damascus; no Syrian government could make...
Harvard sophomore Oliver McNally intentionally fouled Princeton’s Pawel Buczak on the Tigers’ next possession. The center missed the front end of the one-and-one, and the Crimson rushed back down the court...
...lofted a shot that clanged off the front of the rim as the buzzer sounded, which silenced the Crimson crowd and sent the Princeton players into a frenzy...