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...trader was actually sitting at home in Baghdad, waiting. He knew it was only a matter of time before the Americans came. It was just after curfew on the night of June 22, ten weeks after Saddam Hussein's fall, when he heard a helicopter overhead, the humvees in the street outside, the knock at the door. U.S. soldiers came rushing into the house, broke his bed, searched everywhere, then put a blindfold on him and drove him away...
...guests are an array of gabby intellectuals loosely modeled on real-life intellectuals--a Christopher Hitchens-type British lefty, a Tom Clancy-like novelist with pro-war views, a Middle East expert who recalls the late Edward Said. They sit around a long oval table, with a chandelier listing overhead and helicopters whirring periodically, ominously, offstage. After heated debates on everything from Palestinian violence to vegan diets, there's a surprise guest and an apocalyptic climax that sends us out of the theater with a sense that something profound has just transpired...
...Ozzy Osbourne’s “Crazy Train” played on the loudspeakers overhead, the Harvard field hockey team marched onto Jordan Field with the rain at the players’ backs and a three-game winning streak...
Creating such a refined living environment in a college dorm is not without its challenges, however. “Sometimes when my roommates come in late they automatically put on the overhead lights and it looks like a hospital,” Phelan rues. “I don’t let [them] sit on the bed unless [they] re-fluff...
...money—approximately $1.2 million per year after administrative and overhead costs—will go to cover laboratory and research costs for the project, which will comprise about half of the center’s work, according to Bauer Center Director of Research Affairs Laura Garwin ’77. The center, which is composed of 10 fellows, has an annual operating budget of about $6 million, she said...