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...have devoted 20 years of my life to serving my country. I was very proud of that until I heard about Tillman. Now I look at myself in the mirror and ask, Do I measure up? Would I have given up $3.6 million? I pray that I am half the man Tillman was. I intend to use him as a model of honor, courage and commitment whenever I counsel the young sailors on my submarine, the U.S.S. Springfield. I hope Tillman's family takes some comfort in the fact that he exemplified the spirit of service and sacrifice...
...Halime Hassan Osman, Sudan is no place to pray. The wells that once supplied water for her daily ablutions now belong to members of the Janjaweed, a rampaging, government-backed Arab militia that has forced hundreds of thousands of black villagers like Osman to flee their homes in western Sudan. Osman, about 50, now lives in an unsheltered refugee camp in Mahatama, Chad. After a failed attempt to recover her belongings from her village, she prays in a dry riverbed along the border between Sudan and Chad. She and other elderly women are the only ones from the camp...
...believe that Mae Ai was the leader of the Krue Se militants. The Mae Ai they knew couldn't be the same man who, it is suspected, initiated the killings by slashing to death an unsuspecting policeman with a machete. "My father just went to the mosque to pray," Makasan says, barely able to contain his fury. "He was a good Muslim, and the Thai army killed...
...What, pray-tell, is wrong with Fair Dunster—with her Georgian ziggurat reaching up towards the sky, as The Unofficial Guide has long observed? Dunster has the largest and most dignified house library, the most stately dining hall, squash courts galore, a friendly and energetic student-run grill, a convenient shuttle stop, is the house of ten thousand courtyards, a great group of tutors, strong house spirit, an active Senior Common Room and, best of all, Mrs. Porter’s world-famous cookies. No house is more imbued with Harvard’s history?...
...being sick after a long night, try to make sure you do it outside. And then pray for rain...