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...think UMass is a very respectable team,” Bannon said. “I think everyone came to play today and we had a great defensive game...
...Folklore and Mythology concentration probably only has that one thing going for them. At Harvard, we have our own algorithmic sorting hat known as Housing Day. And when you think about it, who hasn't told their friends back home that their dining hall looks like the "Great Hall"? Back in 2008, Harvard Square was temporarily renamed "Hogwarts Square," when Rowling was invited as Class Day speaker. And as FlyBy understands it, far more college essays are actually about Harry Potter than Dostoyevsky or Proust...
...World War II proved less of a platform for antiwar activists; the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor coupled with the global effort to halt fascism and a determination to pull the country out of the Great Depression combined to limit antiwar sentiment. Vietnam, however, was an entirely different ballgame. Unpopular from the start, the war incited the most vocal and widespread antiwar sentiment in U.S. history. Draft-dodging, protests and the burning of draft cards and American flags abounded in a protest movement that had something for everyone. Young adults from middle-class backgrounds - hippies - allied with working-class opponents...
...trying to explain the worsening security situation on the roads, a British contractor recounts a joke that Afghans love to tell about themselves. It goes something like this: Alexander the Great was marching across the Hindu Kush mountains on his way to India over 2,000 years ago. The Greek had heard that Afghan tribes had fierce fighters, so he dispatched part of his force through the northwest, which was supposed to be the easier route, and led the remainder of his army straight through the middle of the Hindu Kush. The commander who had gone through the northwest, expecting...
This summer, as the Obama Administration prepared to confront Iran with proof of its undisclosed uranium-enrichment plant in Qum, CIA Director Leon Panetta ordered his staff to work with European intelligence agencies to compile a comprehensive presentation about the facility. Although the Iranians had taken great pains to keep the facility a secret, building it into a mountain 100 miles southwest from Tehran, the CIA had known about it for three years...