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QUOTE OF NOTE: "The monstrousness of the idea that the U.S. is morally obligated to police every border, to solve every ancient tribal feud, to act as a global Solomon--this is what drove me to throw down the gauntlet and take on an opponent who enjoys every advantage...
They walked past a gauntlet of Irish bars, past drunk men hunching on stoops in mid-morning, until they arrived at the place where they met with the families of Laotian refugees...
...some people, running the gauntlet of screaming and overenthusiastic students pitching their extracurriculars at the Activities Fair is a reminder of what they themselves haven't done, or what they wish they had. Harvard seems to value achievements above all else, and Harvard students are typically characterized as overachievers. Americans in general seem to be afflicted by the particular desire to accomplish and succeed...
Travelers at international airports have long had that understanding. In London, travelers are patted down, and the government has recently ordered that all checked incoming international baggage be X-rayed, even if the passengers are catching a connecting domestic flight. In most Arab countries, passengers run a gauntlet of 14 checkpoints before boarding. Ironically, at Hellenikon airport in Athens--notorious for uneven security and a target of U.S. investigators--passengers, including those who boarded the doomed TWA 747 bound for J.F.K. last week, are screened several times before they board: by Greek airport officials and by airline officials...
...then Harvard fell to Brown in Providence in double-overtime, 73-70, a loss that took a lot of steam out of the Crimson's ship. The close defeat came on a Saturday night a week before the Princeton-Penn gauntlet, and on that next weekend Harvard seemed to be a little tighter than it was a month before...