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...working in his second-floor dorm room when he heard a noise that became increasingly louder. “I looked out the window and saw a disgusting brown waterfall pouring down the side...of Cabot,” Kumar said. “I ran to get help from the senior tutor [Stephen H. Kargere], but by the time I got back to my room, there were four or five inches of water,” he added. “They say it’s sprinkler water, which I suppose is true, but it smells really...
...running. 12 straight wins in Ivy League play – 10 of them by 10 points or more – helped the Crimson to its first NCAA tournament berth since 2003. Harvard’s 13 wins is the league’s most since the Crimson ran the table in 2002-2003 before losing 79-69 to Kansas State in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament.And all the while, I’ve been in Argentina, watching endless hours of soccer (no complaints about that) and snatching only precious few basketball highlights on ESPN Deportes...
...year for Cheney: last February he accidentally sprayed a friend with bird shot while hunting in Texas. A week before the midterms, in a gift to Democrats, he all but endorsed waterboarding on a North Dakota radio talk show as an interrogation technique. Mary Cheney, his openly gay daughter, ran afoul of conservative activists in December when it was revealed that she and her partner were expecting a baby. Late last month, while he was touring Bagram air base in Afghanistan, a suicide bomber attacked the camp's perimeter and killed at least 23 people in what the Taliban called...
...game. He raised a million dollars and built a good organization, but he found that the little things got to him. His fund-raising dinners, Cheney told aides, "weren't substantive enough." He didn't care to pal around with donors. He therefore called it off and never ran on his own again. This removal from people, from politics, from the sensors that make leaders responsive to people, turned into Cheney's Achilles' heel. And it actually deepened when he became Vice President. Bush picked Cheney because Cheney would never run again, but that also meant the newly minted Veep...
...Robert Scales, a retired Army major general who once ran the Army War College, points out that soldiers see hospital accomodations as a big step up from the conditions they're forced to endure daily in barracks. "If you want clean bed sheets and unstopped toilets, lose a leg," he quotes one soldier. "Otherwise, suck it up and drive on, soldier." A general who had been in Walter Reed told Scales that "the barracks at Fort Stewart, at Fort Bragg, at Fort Drum and at Fort Polk are far, far worse than anything I saw at Building 18," where some...