Word: knits
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...college career that I know I will never have here at Harvard. What I miss most about Duke is its profound sense of community, and nothing reminds me more of its absence here than the Harvard-Yale game. Duke basketball was the unifying force behind the close-knit student body, and the Duke-UNC rivalry was the epitome of this phenomenon. When I compare this rivalry to Harvard-Yale, I want to climb into a hole, puke up my guts until Im vomiting bile, and then...
...football team has always been known as one of the most tightly-knit groups on campus. They practice together, they take classes together, they live together...
...that newspapers in the hinterlands carried stories of native sons and daughters living in New York, no matter how remotely they were affected by the attack; in the same way that we called long-neglected acquaintances in Manhattan, just to see how they were doing. We want to knit ourselves connections to a disaster that is in some ways very remote. It is hard to feel connected to a disaster that kills four people in a country of 278,000,000. How much more a part of the disaster we would feel if infected...
...because until last week the Northern Alliance showed few signs of war readiness. Three weeks ago, near Mazar-i-Sharif, a rebel charge was turned back by a Taliban counteroffensive because the Alliance's four rival commanders failed to coordinate their attacks. In the north, the Alliance's loose-knit guerrilla bands are plagued by ethnic infighting, inexperience and customary drug use. The preferred narcotic is a potent, pungent hashish that is smoked by Alliance and Taliban soldiers alike from dinner until midnight. Alliance soldiers say they make up for their lack of Western-style military discipline with versatility...
...Omani and Uzbek air bases and Pakistani intelligence and Indian airspace. And while Administration critics, starting with Israel, warned that all these would come at a cost, the Bush Administration also sensed an opportunity. Officials saw a strategic opening, a chance for a new round of realpolitik, which might knit together the U.S., Russia, China and India in the fight against terror--a partnership, however fragile, that could bear other fruit. A huge dividend came last week, when Russian President Vladimir Putin eased his opposition to NATO expansion...