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...confirmed by my incessant jet lag. The choice of the comedian at the local comedy club to pick on me for a full three minutes was only slightly entertaining (cue to excessive blushing in reaction to American tourist clichés). And getting four golf balls off the ground out of about 200 at the driving range at University of Stirling wasn’t an experience I would call inspiring...
...Recent Graduates Committee of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA), usually a vehicle by which old graduates of the Crimson make their bi-annual pilgrimage back to the stadium for three hours of athletic bliss, is infringing upon sacred ground this year...
...architecturally designed to tap into people's fears. Pickel, who designs haunts throughout the country, knows how to use architecture to creep out people, with features like wide rooms with low ceilings, elusive exits, crawl spaces, or uneven, shifting floors. Other eerie additions include lighting that comes from the ground, a high-tech sound system (allowing a variety of sounds to play at the same time), smells (like rotting earth) and the storyline. "A haunted house is like a horror movie and you are figuring out the story as you walk through it," says Pickel...
...This election will be won on the ground," says Mary Gutierrez, communications director of the L.A. County AFL-CIO. But Republican insiders, such as former State Senator Jim Brulte, are equally confident that the "tens of millions" their party is spending to get out the vote will counteract all that. Furthermore, Brulte says, thanks to Schwarzenegger the Golden State G.O.P. isn't dispirited and its roster of candidates in down-ticket races is so diverse that "there's something for every Republican to like...
...General Sultan says the attack was necessary to prepare the ground for fruitful peace talks. "Some of these militants are a hard nut to crack," he says. "They may not come easily to negotiation. We need to show them what is at risk." The agreement in North Waziristan, he points out, was also preceded by several months of military activity - in which the Pakistani military lost some 800 men, about the same number of militants it was able to capture during the operation. But few outside of Pakistan have hailed the Waziristan deal as a success. NATO leaders in Afghanistan...