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Cries of sacrilege and inevitable mayhem over a café in Lamont Library were printed on this page as early as October, 2005. With fresh memories of scantily clad Dudley Co-op residents and flying burritos, concerned studiers and bibliophiles were rightfully worried that Lamont might become the type of library that The New York Times recently exposed in “Lock the Library! Rowdy Students Are Taking Over”—a center of chaos and disorder...
...compete for the million dollars on offer for completing the job. The FBI, of course, is attempting to protect the man they hope is going to be their star witness. Pretty soon everyone get to killing everyone else. You have quite possibly never seen so much unedifying mayhem in a relatively confined space, the smallest of which is a hotel elevator in which two guys pump uncounted bullets into one another at point blank range. Hmm, one muses - never seen that before...
...This political mayhem has its roots in the compromises sometimes required in Asia's more fragile democracies. After Bangladesh returned to civilian leadership in 1991 following 15 years of mostly military rule, the two main political parties-the secular, nationalist Awami League led by Sheikh Hasina and the more Islamic-leaning and pro-business Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) led by outgoing Prime Minister Khaleda Zia-agreed that the incumbent party would step down a couple of months before every election. A neutral caretaker government would briefly run the country and the election commission until a new government was elected...
What's going on here is a decoupling of the world economy from world politics, where the bad news keeps piling up like the mangled victims of terror and mayhem in Baghdad. Iran, thanks to the weakening of American power, is on a roll, and so is Syria, which less than two years ago was shown the door in Lebanon. North Korea has exploded a nuclear device, and Russia is back to its imperial ways, except that Putin is much more effective with his pipelines than was the Politburo with its tanks and missiles. Much of Africa is stuck...
...Like all human beings, I base my perceptions on my previous experiences, and I grew up in Philadelphia—a town that has a dangerous obsession with sports generally, and the Eagles in particular. Its Eagles obsession is dangerous both in the sense that real mayhem and destruction often accompany home games, and in the sense that the team hasn’t won an NFL championship since...