Word: ladens
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...Fallaci's "ferocious courage, and the willingness to say anything... can amount to a life force." I don't think it takes great courage for Coulter to sit safely behind her Mac, buzzing on Nicorette in the wee hours and inventing new insults for Ted Kennedy and Osama Bin Laden. But no American public intellectual would dare read Coulter's polemics so closely as some read Fallaci. Instead, they prefer to call her a "skank," as essayist James Wolcott...
...Saddam Hussein was captured in December 2003. He didn't allow himself a public grin until half an hour later, at the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast. While Washington slept, Iraqis had announced that an American air strike had killed Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, who competed only with Osama bin Laden for the title of world's most wanted terrorist. Speaking live for six minutes on the network morning shows, the President said coalition and Iraqi forces had "persevered through years of near misses and false leads, and they never gave up." The congratulations stopped there...
...LeRoy, a nonexistent person; it’s a world where facts compete, contradict one another, and change with the times. Our decisions about (and knowledge of) the world are largely based on constructed images, not personal experience. I believe that Hilary Clinton is frosty and that Osama bin Laden crashed planes into the World Trade Center not because I had any direct experience with the former first lady or September 11, but because it appears that way on TV.In other words, because the world is too complex and broad for personal experience, we make use of unstable and inaccurate...
...season of youth and inexperience, of ups and downs, and more often than not, the Harvard women’s basketball team came up short.A freshman- and sophomore-laden lineup fell shy in its bid for the Crimson’s second consecutive Ivy League title, as Harvard (12-15, 8-6 Ivy) spent the season struggling to put together a 40-minute offensive effort.The Crimson’s slow starts and untimely miscues sullied a late run for the Ivy title, leaving Harvard out of the hunt by the fifth week of league play...
...blowout at the hands of Cornell, before Harvard beat Columbia to snap the streak and salvage Senior Night. The Crimson’s late-season collapse mirrored the 2002-03 season’s disappointing finish, when Harvard—bearing similarly high expectations for a senior-laden squad—compiled an identical 8-5 mark in non-conference play. That team dropped eight of its final 10 league games, just as the Crimson did this year, to fall out of the race. “It’s eerily similar, for sure,” said Sullivan...