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...play approaches its conclusion, there is a real sense of loss at the thought of leaving Judevine. It’s comforting to know, though, that it endures as beautiful as it ever was—a notion succinctly expressed in the play’s final passage...
...Ariel Sharon are even more pronounced than those on Arafat. Bush wants the prime minister to enter negotiations over Palestinian statehood in the West Bank and Gaza, but what Sharon wants is to build buffer zones in those territories and enter only into "long-term interim agreements" - a notion dismissed out of hand by Palestinian and moderate Arab leaders, who have embraced a consensus for peace with Israel on the basis of some version of its 1967 borders. That's a prospect Sharon has ruled out, and Benjamin Netanyahu's challenge from the right for leadership of the Likud party...
...boycotted the Senior Kickoff at the Kong. Mine was a silent protest against the perverse notion of celebrating a countdown to the scariest day of all time. But that was back in the triple digits, 102 days to be exact, when I was still dating my thesis and smooching my neighbor on the sly. It’s a whole different ballgame when you’re in the thirties and you actually have to start planning for a life of posts: post-graduation, post.harvard.edu, postpartum depression, post office, Post cereal—and the list goes on. Some seniors...
...asked. The motorcycle jerked as Stith clutched and released the brake. The engine revved and we began an abrupt acceleration. Stith quickly informed me that she was deeply opposed to many of the common practices of motorcycle culture—most of all the entire notion of the biker bar, which she believes brings drinking and driving into uncomfortably close proximity...
...notion of a debut dates back to 16th-century England and is credited to Queen Elizabeth, who formally introduced eligible young women to the court. Wealthy Americans adopted the custom in the 19th century as a means of letting interested men know their daughters were available...