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...mean to trivialize the U.S.-China spyplane standoff. I know that there was more to this kafuffle than China’s uncharacteristically humane treatment of the 24-member crew of the damaged jet. In addition to submitting our men and women to a nine-day “ordeal,” they also kept our plane...
...February 1997 it was four-year-old brother Garrett's turn. His ordeal was mercifully briefer. After four months, including 10 days of chemo, Garrett was out of the hospital--with a temporarily bald pate but a spanking-new immune system. Heartened, the UCLA doctors did a cord transplant on a third boy, Billy Bodine, 11, to correct a similarly inherited immune deficiency called X-linked hyper-immunoglobin M syndrome...
...middle of the Grille’s ordeal, a news feature appeared on the front page of The Crimson digging up old licensing commission reports. The ugliness of the Grille’s past doesn’t change its social importance or its role as a student meeting place. We should remember that an essential part of the Grille’s background is also its niche in Harvard’s social life. Furthermore, students should stand by their bar until there isn’t one left...
Thursday had always promised to be an ordeal. The finish line was in sight, but it was guarded by a grizzly--the non-severability amendment that, if passed, would throw all their hard work in doubt. Throughout the week the bill's opponents watched McCain rack up victories, knowing they had this last weapon. But McCain had 150,000 weapons of his own: e-mail correspondents who were kept abreast of the bill's progress and told which Senate offices to barrage with calls and e-mails. On Thursday they made sure that 20 Senate office switchboards were...
...pregnant longing. As the track plays on, Mirwais adds further layers of nuance, utilizing scratches and other effects (including a poignant background vocal cry of “I can’t wait”) to abstract, smashing success. Connoisseurs of fine music are encouraged to avoid the ordeal of “Junkie’s Prayer.” Dramatic instrumental music is present—unfortunately it is obscured by a stunningly uninsightful voice-over. Horrendous lyrics that could have come from a random French to English translator sound as if Mirwais recorded it while...