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...Pentagon would prefer to continue blasting Taliban lines with B-52 carpet bombs while the Northern Alliance does the dirty work on the ground. Though the number of U.S. sorties flown daily last week dipped from 100 to 75, the bombers were able to hit harder and with more focused rage. U.S. special-ops spotters deployed to the front more than doubled last week to almost 100 men. Target guides on the ground allowed the U.S. to pulverize Taliban troops in the north with a pair of BLU-82 "daisy cutters"--15,000-lb., minivan-size killing machines carried...
...government should rule according to carefully chosen principles, not unbridled tyranny of the majority. We must insist that rights are unalienable in all cases, not simply the cases we happen to prefer today...
Harvard students and Square workers tend to clash over the locale of their initial dates. For even though Harvard students spend a lot of time here—at Harvard—it seems many of them would prefer to keep their dates on safe, home turf. This makes little sense to real people who aren’t cursed with Crimson-tinted tunnel vision. Burk, who has dated more than 20 Harvard students and three professors in the past three years, has always simply assumed these women wanted to be taken downtown and introduced into the wider world...
...Junichiro Tanizaki (1886-1965) succeeded in making the trans-language voyage simply by being one of the 20th century's greatest writers. A dazzling storyteller, his The Makioka Sisters, Shunkin, Some Prefer Nettles and The Key are all masterpieces. Unfortunately, The Gourmet Club (Kodansha International; 201 pages), a miscellany of six self-described short stories culled from a bottom drawer of the Tanizaki tansu, does not display the sensei at the top of his talents. Yet each of the pieces does reveal the characteristic marks and quirks of his oeuvre, both his genius and his grotesqueries, ranging from the mildly...
...Square’s street performers—many of whom prefer the term “busker,” originally a British term for street entertainers—say the scene is a culture and community in itself, with a subtle hierarchy and staggering breadth of performance...