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Nevertheless, I was possessed to pack my bags. This element of journeying in Bosnia I still haven’t gotten down to a tee. Sunscreen, toilet paper, deodorant—none of these things found their way into my backpack. What did were two Bosnian-English dictionaries and The Mystery of Capital...
After Atal Bihari Vajpayee resolved a half-century of animosity with China on a state visit to Beijing last month, the Indian Prime Minister's traveling press pack tried valiantly to find some balancing spin. Settling a dispute over India's eastern border with Tibet was all well and good, said a reporter at a press conference in Beijing, but what about India's most famous foreign resident, the Dalai Lama? A junior correspondent queried whether the aging Prime Minister would be around to complete New Delhi's rapprochement with Beijing. Another contrasted China's soaring economic progress with India...
...only thing worse than the morning pack is the midday duo. Here, copy boy and CEO are forced into too-close-for-comfort conversation. In the morning migration, the elevators are full and feigning physical discomfort can acceptably replace fickle chatting. Such tactics become remarkably more difficult when the numbers decline, and the scene begins to resemble a bad blind date. You nod, you smile, you twirl your hair to seem otherwise occupied. And more importantly, you pretend you have somewhere incredibly important to go—and once the door opens, you make fast tracks to get there...
...Know as I know. Of course, we Seers have always been feared, always persecuted…It is—alas—our fate…” Hogwarts professors don’t have the benefits of tenure, and the Inquisitor tells Trelawney to pack up. Rumor has it that in the next book we’ll see her accuse the High Inquisitor of being “the Lord Voldemort of wizardly secondary education...
...Crimson placed eighth in the women’s regatta, and despite the low finish, made significant progress this spring. Having qualified for all three regattas this season, Harvard’s place in the middle of the pack is an example of the depth of the team...