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...Saddam's game plan, for now, is simple: Keep the neighbors out of Washington's camp by declaring a willingness to cooperate with the arms inspectors, and paint U.S. war plans as part of a wider American attack on the Arab and Muslim world. Better still, link it directly to the Bush administration's close relationship with the government of Ariel Sharon, whose policies offend even Washington's most moderate Arab allies. That's precisely what Saddam tried to do in 1991 when he fired SCUD missiles at Israel just as the U.S.-led coalition assault began, in hopes...
...look, I'm getting poorer." But he's not letting that slow him down. "My theory is, you die if you don't keep moving," he says. "The people I hang out with are in their 20s and 30s. I want to be around people who want to paint a picture, be in a play, become a lawyer--not people who are planning their funerals...
That really should not be surprising. Most types of animals--monkeys, whales, cats, apes--come in multiple varieties. As recently as 30,000 or 40,000 years ago, when Homo sapiens was sufficiently evolved to make jewelry and paint hauntingly evocative drawings on cave walls, we shared the planet with a second hominid species, the Neanderthals. And although it seems natural to us that only one species of hominid lives today, it is in fact an exception to nature's way of doing things...
...superheroes and to organize a day dedicated to cross-dressing and prancing around in the undergarments of the opposite sex. My favorite example of eccentricity, though, occurred on the final day of the first term, when one student decided that his ice cream bar was more useful as face paint than as tasty nourishment. When I asked the student to explain his unexpected maneuver, he kept smearing the chocolate on his cheeks and told me that he was merely “expressing his emotions” and “trying to cheer people...
...into the trend that marketers have invented labels for them: they're called shisutaakei, "the sister group," or "hip hop" after the music they like. Japan's streets are where they fight their battle against the tired, older generations, with feather cell-phone straps, dreadlocks and black face paint...