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...understanding of just how lucky I am. I mean, of course I would have preferred the window seat in an exit row, but that day on the airplane proved to me that my Harvard skepticism sometimes controls my life. Every once and a while things suck, and the prospect of sitting in the middle seat between a dad and two babies certainly did suck. But things could have been a lot worse—I mean, Kurt could have been the obese father of triplets trying to squeeze into two seats. And it’s not like...
...chilling set of bogeymen. The developing world is predicted to bear the brunt of climate change’s maladies, as rising temperatures exacerbate food shortages. The list of failed states will be a lot longer in 20 or 30 years if no action is taken. The prospect of millions of refugees, incensed at decades of American apathy, is scary enough to keep Pentagon planners up at night...
...necessitates traveling through Shi'ite territory, so few take the risk. Meanwhile access to basic goods and services is slowly being choked off as the area comes under frequent mortar attack. With this ancient Sunni community slowly being strangled to death, its residents were unlikely to rejoice at the prospect of being surrounded, "for their protection," by a 15-foot-high barrier of gray concrete slabs...
...more than just a new musical, “Ask Me Anything” was a good musical that consistently wedded witty turns of phrase to tight harmonies and a cute story. One shudders at the prospect of a brooding, self-styled future Sondheim in charge of something like this, and it’s a relief to see that “Ask Me Anything” was not going for anything it couldn’t handle...
...Segolene Royal, this year's Socialist contender, is running second in the polls behind conservative front-runner Nicolas Sarkozy of Chirac's Union for a Popular Majority (UMP). Striking a pose of tranquility and confidence, she never explicitly invokes the prospect of a repeat of her party's ignoble 2002 debacle. But her partner, Socialist Party Secretary Francois Hollande, put it bluntly a few days ago: "If the left is to be position to rule the country, people have to vote for Royal in the first round...