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...Marriott Hotel, Casablanca's tourist sites and Jewish centers, residential compounds for foreign workers in Riyadh, Istanbul's synagogues and British offices. But a second assault in Riyadh Nov. 8 was on a compound housing mainly Muslims and Arabs. And the locale of all these strikes may contain a grim message for Muslims: Beware, anyone who cooperates with the West--the danger extends...
After spending the first 18 years of my life in England, Thanksgiving is still a somewhat alien holiday for me. While being thankful that our lives aren’t more grim than they are seems like an excellent idea, celebrating that fact actually feels a little strange. After all, anyone who has read my columns over the past 15 months will understand that I tend to focus on the negative—and, moreover, must be convinced that I think Harvard is a simply dreadful place to go to college. During that time my pieces have consistently criticized...
Then a door lock broke. Then a spring popped out of a seat. By the time she had put 50,000 miles on her Jetta, it already felt sluggish, says Jones, 28. And what especially disturbed her were the grim faces of fellow VW owners whom she encountered at her dealership. "The majority of them weren't there for basic service" of their cars, she says, "but because of some defect...
...entrance of a Paris club called Espace Cardin. Inside, on this drizzly October evening, the world's most obsessed-about pop star is supposed to be taping a French TV special in front of a crowd of adoring, gyrating Parisian partygoers. But outside, the scene now is much more grim, with workmen lugging huge amplifiers and other stage equipment onto waiting trucks while clusters of fans linger under umbrellas looking très misérables. The cabbie didn't have to say a word: it's all too obvious Britney Spears isn't here. Instead, she's just...
...sent a team to the playoffs and they won. Then, the presidents would feel pressure from alumni to keep fielding title contending football teams. Football players would become the spotlight figures on campus, and the Ivy League educational experience would fall apart. (It has to look this grim to the presidents or else they would have caved in to logic a long time ago). But if they can keep Pandora’s box shut, they can continue to diminish the presence of football players on campus and achieve greater diversity by phasing out athletes...