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...Writing in his blog, my friend Shane K. Wilson ’07 quotes Pound Professor of Law Roberto M. Unger: “To gain freedom of insight and action in a more remote context, often at the price of ineptitude in an immediate one, is a definition of genius.” Without geniuses there would be no intellectual situation to speak of, only hollow feedback, the sound of measuring tapes flapping and brows furrowing. Genius versus critic is Lil’ Wayne v. Kanye West; Bush v. Cheney; Twin Towers v. Freedom Tower; Sal Paradise v. Dean...
...late'60s, Broadway-musical actress-dancer-singer Gretchen Wyler visited her local dog pound in Warwick, N.Y. Wyler (whose shows included the original Guys and Dolls, Bye Bye Birdie and Damn Yankees) immediately redirected her energies to animal-rights activism. She launched the Genesis Awards, which since 1986 have annually honored such media and entertainment figures as Paul McCartney for tackling animal-protection issues, and in the '90s merged her action group, Ark Trust, with the U.S. Humane Society...
...series of intense gun battles fought in the streets of Tripoli itself and nine miles north of the city in the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp, which is also headquarters of the Fatah al-Islam faction. The violence spread to Beirut late Sunday when a 22-pound bomb exploded in a car park in the Ashrafieh district of east Beirut, killing one woman and wounding 12 others...
...issues: economics, national identity and foreign policy. Both extol the importance of a strong work ethic and advocate free markets--but with caveats. Both have a controversial nationalist bent: while Brown talks about the importance of "Britishness" and has openly resisted the idea of giving up the pound to join Europe's common currency, Sarkozy is seeking to establish tighter citizenship criteria for immigrants. Both feel warm about the U.S. but are cool toward President Bush. Neither gets emotional over the idea of European unity, preferring to see what works--and what doesn't. Both are impatient, often short-tempered...
...medication quickly or if it doesn't kick in, he will experience a neurological event that 28 million Americans know all too well--the tidal wave of headaches known as a migraine. For Schipper the pain is sudden and sharp. "The front quarter of my head begins to pound and throb," he says. In extreme cases, he vomits violently every 20minutes. His senses of smell and hearing become agonizingly acute. "All I want to hear is gentle white noise at most and no movement, please. If there's a car alarm that goes off nearby, it's unbearable...