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...streets kind of disaster. Pausing for a 17-minute speech rebutting his critics for calling him "dangerous" and "crazy," he took out the block-tower game. On opposite sides of the tower were written the words solution and problem, taxpayer and children. Then he spent much of the hour critiquing the plan, all the while pulling pieces from the wobbling tower and stacking them on top. (Read an interview with Glenn Beck...
...next hour, the three boys troop around the stable to tack the horses. They wrap protective bandages around the ponies’ fore legs, attach the bridles, lay out saddle blankets, and braid the tails to make room for back swings. Nick jumps onto a golf cart with a large rake attached to the back, and the vehicle wheezes and rattles across the indoor arena in sweeping symmetrical arcs to smooth the sand, or “footing,” which is looser than most other indoor fields. Mid-way, Nick gets out of the car to swiftly scoop...
...Pakistan A Deadly Show of Strength Baitullah Mehsud, commander of Taliban groups in Pakistan, took credit for a March 30 raid on a police academy in Lahore that sparked an eight-hour standoff and left at least 12 people dead. In telephone interviews with Pakistani news agencies, Mehsud also promised to "amaze everyone in the world" with an attack on Washington as revenge for U.S. missile strikes on militant bases along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. The FBI painted the threat as purely aspirational, pointing out that Mehsud had made similar comments before. Still, the attack comes less than a month...
...Report on Harvard House Renewal released last week promises to give students everything from 24-hour dining halls to more soundproof bedrooms. The House Program Planning Committee has gone to lengths to address a broad array of problems, involving both the structure of the Houses themselves and the general organization of House life. The major initiatives laid out in the report seem positive and, if renewal proceeds along these lines, prospective students can look forward to joining better-equipped, more cohesive Houses...
...paying a tuk-tuk driver $30 (probably too much) for a 6-hr. tour of town. If you like animals, ask someone to take you to the Buddhist monastery, where the legions of wild monkeys will eat out of your hand. And definitely set aside an hour to visit Boom Boom Room (Serendipity Beach Road; +855-12-219-657), where you can load up your iPod or MP3 player with supercheap music...