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...Dhabi last week, President George H.W. Bush was asked what advice he was giving his son about Iraq. Bush the Elder declined to answer at first. He said that if he shared his view of Iraq with the audience and "it happened to deviate one iota, one little inch, from what the President's doing ... it would be terrible." But he kept on talking: "It'd bring great anxiety not only to him but to his supporters." And talking: "In the early 1960s, Jim Baker and I were the men's doubles champions in tennis in the city of Houston...
...Hundreds of DVDs and games for various systems jostle for space with such ponderous volumes as War and Peace and a molecular biology textbook, while Nintendo 64 cartridges occupy their own floor compartment. When it comes to the contests that play out on the room’s 32-inch Sony television, the Mower suite’s residents have many means of sorting out the true champions from the mere dabblers. Their collection of consoles includes an X-Box 360, a Nintendo 64, a Super Nintendo, and a PlayStation 2. They will soon have options for adding even more...
...showed and how much makeup I wore—than they did at my white friends, although their U.S. passports were no bluer than mine. Equally perceptible were the unabashed stares of lust, constant catcalls, and unsolicited conversations, winks, and even physical contact, as if choosing to show an inch of skin—i.e. my ankles—entitled men to unwanted advances and women to judgmental looks. I could never walk down the street alone without a constant, infuriating paranoia that had me counting down the hours until my flight home. It made me resent Egypt and Islam...
...games: much of its soundtrack was comprised of excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake.”While innovations like this were initially confined to low-profile experiments, before long prominent studios got in on the action. Trent Reznor, mastermind of industrial group Nine Inch Nails, composed the entire soundtrack for id Software’s legendary 1996 shoot-em-up “Quake,” for instance.More recently, Harry Gregson-Williams, Hollywood music composer, scored the 2001 game “Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty...
...book is filled with these factoids humanizing figures that have become emblazoned in our historical memory. Lonely hearts at Harvard may take some solace in knowing that it was only through the clever machinations of Aaron Burr and Martha Washington that James Madison’s five-foot five-inch bod landed Dolley Payne, a “buxom brunette with remarkably fair skin.” The future Mrs. Madison would later spark a fashion trend as each of her dresses were “set off with ostrich plumes and feathery birds of paradise and topped those creations...