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Meanwhile, the Pentagon is completing a plan to send several scores of troops to Yemen, a longtime terrorist hideout. The FBI will also dispatch agents. U.S. intelligence agencies believe that al-Qaeda members will use Yemen as a base, because like Pakistan it offers such an inviting mix of political instability, Islamic extremism and enough infrastructure to set up shop. In the past, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been a reluctant U.S. partner. The FBI complains that Yemeni authorities cooperated only "grudgingly and slowly," as one official puts it, with the investigation of the 2000 bombing of the U.S.S...
...deeper standard than that. If the hunting impulse is as old as humanity, so is the sense of what it truly means to chase and bag an animal. Nature may have intended humans to hunt, but whether it meant to toss ranches, pens and feeding stations into the mix is a question hunters must ask themselves...
...called upon by John Quinn, the local womanizer always looking for chances to “get into the boggy hollow,” they are obliged to welcome him just as they would their best friends. The villagers’wry, patient sense of humor makes such a mix of people endurable; gossip makes them interesting. Jamesie is guilessly fascinated by the details of other people’s lives. But his wife recognizes that the importance of knowing other people runs far deeper than entertainment. “‘People we know come...
Kerouac was the linchpin that held together this strange mix of personalities. On the Road was similarly the central work supporting the movement. Gilbert Millstein wrote prophetically in the New York Times’ first review of the book: “Just as, more than any other novel of the Twenties, The Sun Also Rises came to be regarded as the testament of the Lost Generation, so it seems certain that On the Road will come to be known as that of the Beat Generation.” But true as Millstein’s words are, his predictions...
...head of the Bureau of Study Counsel, described writing by saying, “First you make a mess and then you clean it up.” Just as you don’t drive your car with the emergency brake on, you don’t mix the creative and the critical parts of writing. First you throw everything at the page and then go back and look with a steely eye to see what makes sense and what you can turn into sense. During the early years of the Writing Center, we had faculty give lectures...