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...just because Americans grew up playing soccer in adolescence doesn't mean we want to watch other people do it; we also grew up bowling and arguing about who should hang up first. The intrinsic problem with soccer is that a goal can occur at any time, including breaks for nachos, beer or the bathroom. Unlike the rest of the world, with their soccer and cricket and goat malleting, we have perfected our sports so that you only have to tune into the last two minutes to see if Shaq can hit his free throws. We're a busy people...
That is why wise nations try to keep the first form of terrorism from transmuting into the second. Arguably, Israel has allowed that evolution to occur. In the 1970s, the Palestine Liberation Organization, murderous though it was, was rigorously secular and advanced a conventional agenda for national liberation. For years Israel ignored it. The newer Palestinian terrorist groups, such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad, see their cause in much more religious, millenarian terms; from Israel's standpoint, dealing with them is far more difficult...
WHAT IT IS: Recurrent, unexpected attacks of acute anxiety, peaking within 10 minutes. Such panic may occur in a familiar situation, such as a crowded elevator...
...incoming Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby says this review is likely to be more extensive than past ones—which occur at regular five-year intervals...
Just four days before a concert with Wyclef Jean and Jurassic 5 was to occur in the Bright Hockey Center, Associate Dean of the College David P. Illingworth ’71 cancelled the event, concerned the HCC would not be able to sell the 3,000 tickets necessary to fill the venue...