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...returning home, a letter I mailed to him in Ferizaj came back undelivered. Just a month later, though, I would find out in the most unlikely way that Dani was indeed back home - and doing just fine. On Nov. 23, 1999, I stumbled upon this passage in an Associated Press article about President Bill Clinton's one-day visit to celebrate victory in Kosovo: "An eighth-grader, Ramadan Ilazi, introduced Clinton, making his first visit to Kosovo since the war ended in June. 'You promised that you will bring us to our homes safe. You kept your promise...
...amidst one of the most exciting wins for the Harvard men’s hockey team this year—a 2-1 overtime thriller over Boston University—I didn’t feel like I was at a college hockey game as I sat in the press box of the Agganis Arena across the river in Boston. And it wasn’t just that I felt like a big shot as I sat with reporters from major newspapers in the luxurious press box of a brand new arena.Most of this feel came from details that actually...
...businessman named David Abrahams but were channeled to the party through a number of other individuals. British law stipulates that the real identity of donors must be reported to the U.K. Electoral Commission. Watt resigned on Nov. 26. Brown, now back in Downing Street, summoned journalists to his monthly press conference the next day. "Mistakes have been made," he told them. "There will have to be changes...
...Problems do arise for which the Prime Minister directly is not responsible," said Brown at his Nov. 27 Downing Street press conference. Separate investigations into the missing discs and the dodgy donations will attempt to uncover exactly what went wrong and who is to blame. If Brown is to regain public support, he'll have to convince the public that the buck doesn't stop in Downing Street...
This is a serious column.Fair warning, because you’ll be waiting for the payoff, the gotcha moment, the just-kidding punch line, and it’s not going to arrive.Last Saturday, I was a civilian; at far remove from the Yale Bowl press box, I cheered wildly for every Bulldogs stumble, every incompletion, every three-and-out. Virtually everything that could go wrong for the Elis did, and as a Harvard fan who loves to point and laugh and yell in the raucous environment of a near-full arena, I reveled in it. Last Sunday, I asked...