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...indicted by a U.N. tribunal on 37 counts of crimes against humanity and violating the laws or customs of war - including murder, rape and personal involvement in beating civilians - he emerged as a hero. That's partly because the former commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army agreed to quit and turn himself in. Many found his resignation impressive. The U.N. administrator for Kosovo, Soren Jessen-Petersen, said that Haradinaj "has once again put the interests of Kosovo above his own." HERO FOR A LIFETIME beamed the newspaper Express. NATO flew in 1,000 reinforcements to guard against the possibility...
...from standing on her own two feet. Smashed is the lonely history of how alcohol tore her life apart, in ways that anyone who has unwittingly hurt themselves or others can begin to comprehend. “In the end,” Zailckas writes, “I quit drinking because I didn’t want to waste any more time picking up the pieces. I decided smashed, when it’s used as a synonym for drunk, is a self-fulfilling prophecy...
...Quit all but one of your extracurriculars and go talk to your roommate. And put your hand down already...
Bull, I say. I know a little bit about game theory—thanks Dave—and this is the classic prisoner’s dilemma argument: you can’t quit if other people won’t. But guess what? You’re not prisoners, you can talk to each other. Cultures change when people decide to change them...
...Tung would have done better to quit while he was ahead. Public discontent with him spiked sharply?over the economy, his administration's bungled handling of the SARS epidemic, and its attempt to bulldoze through the legislature antisubversion laws that many Hong Kongers felt could be used to stifle dissent. The discontent spilled into the streets on July 1, 2003, when half a million marched to demand that Tung go. China's leadership, which had been informed by Tung that the protest would be small and well contained, was not amused. A year later, after Beijing ruled out the direct...