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Judy Meyer, a marketing executive for several Houston nightclubs, observes that "ten years ago, I would walk into a nightclub and be literally pinched by men, and guys would ask me pointblank if I wanted to get laid. Today there is a general softening in attitude. The days of the hard hustle are gone." Says Stephen Greer, 33, co-owner of three Chicago nightclubs: "If you don't work in a candy store, every piece of candy looks great. But today everybody works in a candy store?it's so easy for everybody to have sex. So people are becoming...
Just before dawn on Feb. 16, dozens of Australian soldiers crept silently into Fatu Metan, a district in the west of the East Timorese capital, Dili. They surrounded a small house and laid a ladder up against the partially completed second story; across the road, snipers with laser sights took up positions on the roof of a partly demolished house. The soldiers, members of the International Stabilization Force attempting to restore calm to East Timor, believed that hiding inside the three-bedroom home was one of the country's most wanted men, Lieutenant Gustao Salsinha - sought in connection with...
Indeed, the Crimson has felt the absence of premier players like Suchde. Despite holding a No. 3 ranking, Harvard laid two goose eggs against No. 1 Trinity and No. 2 Princeton, with the Tigers and Bantams combining for 17 3-0 sweeps in those 18 matches. Only DiSesa even won a single game in those two contests, losing 3-1 at No. 3 against Trinity’s Manek Mathur...
...laid out a list of all the shortcomings of John McCain, the apparent Republican nominee. These, too, were tired and predictable: he opposes torture, he did not vote for Bush’s tax cuts and he supports “amnesty” for illegal immigrants. This led you to assert that Republicans may be better off voting for Clinton in the same way that Churchill was forced to ally himself with Stalin in order to fight Hitler...
...foreign service officers to Iraq. At a town hall meeting to discuss the staffing gap, one 46-year diplomat described a posting in Iraq as "a potential death sentence." After the hubbub, enough volunteers stepped forward, so no one was ordered to go to Iraq. But the incident laid bare the cultural aversion some tweedy diplomats have to the realities of the changing world beyond Foggy Bottom. After the town hall, Rice, says a close adviser, was even more determined to make sure the department had the right people serving in the most difficult places. "We are trying...