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...flocking to join the fight against America. "Why do you want to enter this hell?" warned a Taliban soldier at a roadblock. Who knows? Because of religious conviction? Because it's home? Or because, like young men before them for a thousand years, the youths felt, at the prospect of war, a summoning up of the blood. There'll be plenty of that before we're through...
...Poring over his freshman facebook, Felix P. Johnson ‘03 remarked once again that the prospect of finally meeting Faye T. Johnson ‘03, the best-looking girl in his class and his presumptive neighbor during alphabetically-ordered graduation ceremonies, was the only thing keeping him in school. He was then informed that graduaton seating is by house. Johnson is currently considering taking some time...
...colored with four years of term-time work at a Boston law firm and summer jobs at an Internet start-up and Monitor Consulting, respectively. Last summer Peng had to choose between satisfying an innate desire to study in China and possibly solidifying her post-graduate plans. The prospect of interning at a firm that could offer her a full-time position at the end of the summer was appealing. A full-time offer would save her from the hectic months of recruiting...
...smacks of Big Brother. Indeed, the prospect of a police officer saying, "Your papers, please," seems to represent everything we fought against during the Cold War. It reeks of the repressive policies of totalitarian states that restrict the free flow of ideas, of people, of commerce, of everything...
...prospect of renewed negotiations was the main reason that Zeevi and his party were quitting the government. But there was also pressure from inside Likud, from people like Uzi Landau, saying they would have to consider their options if Sharon began talking to Arafat, so he was under a lot of pressure. Until today, which has changed everything again. This time it was Peres under pressure when the cabinet met today, and Lieberman was persuaded to withdraw his resignation and remain in the government...