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...into the familiar cosmos of a U2 hit. There's the martial beat, the fickle female object of desire, the soaring inarticulateness - "Ohhhhhh/ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh" - followed by the Edge chugga-chugga-chugging away on his guitar, chasing Bono up the scale note for note and yawp for yawp. It makes you giggle in amazement that the same old tricks keep generating new thrills...
...Northwest airlines will set up a peanut-free buffer zone spanning three rows in front of and behind an allergic passenger. (Why three rows instead of four or five?) Foodmakers have also gone a little overboard. In 2006 a federal law started requiring companies to use plain language to note the presence in their products of any of eight major allergens: milk, eggs, fish, crustacean shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat and soybeans. But concern about liability claims led manufacturers to voluntarily supplement these labels with alerts on products that were made in the same facility or on the same machinery...
...Donoghue said it is important to note that the English department’s new plan does not herald the end of studies of Western civilization. “If anything,” he said, “it will give students more of a share in pursuing the English canon...
...invitation to Roosevelt, “[W]e hope you will choose for your theme for a brief address something connected with Harvard... and feel that you would welcome this opportunity to divorce yourself from the arduous demands of politics and political speechmaking.” The note ended with a request for Roosevelt to keep his comments to less than 10 minutes...
...Once in U.S. custody, many high-level smugglers do cop pleas and then turn on one another, allowing prosecutors to weaken their organizations, says Josh Levine, former chief of the international narcotics trafficking unit of the U.S. Attorney's office for the southern district of New York. Prosecutors also note that little guys often help build cases against the capos. But Perez estimates that half of all extradited Colombians have no business bobbing through the U.S. criminal-justice system...