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Fortitude and Pandemonium However the pandemic plays out, the chief mantra for everyone - wash your hands, cough into the crook of your elbow rather than your palms, stay home if you're sick - will be repeated endlessly over the coming months in ad campaigns, public-service announcements and the global media. A certain fortitude is required of the global population as well. At the height of the spring flu outbreak, hospitals in the U.S. were overwhelmed by crowds, including large numbers of the so-called worried well, who, when they showed up en masse, had the ability to delay services...
...think the difference is that my international friendships have always been based on our differences, rather than our similarities. Therefore, even if our paths grow far apart the dynamic doesn’t break down, it improves. In the course of Harvard life, I don’t often get to send emails that start off with, “How’s the Chinese medicine practice going? Are you still living on the commune?” (To Caite, my titian-dreadlocked Australian neighbor in Zanzibar...
...conservatives. He even opposed Sonia Sotomayor's appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court, a questionable move in a state with one of the nation's largest Latino populations. But since Florida GOP Senator Mel Martinez last week resigned the seat Crist is running for, the governor now has the rather weird duty of appointing an interim successor to the job he eventually wants. (He insists he won't appoint himself.) His choice could have a big effect on both his 2010 fortunes and whether Republicans as a national party can recover the female and minority voters they lost...
Another possible direction is for the group's new leadership to concentrate its fire west of the border, in Afghanistan. "Baitullah was the one person who was focusing [most] of his attention on Pakistan and trying to create a disturbance here rather than Afghanistan," says Shaukat Qadir, a retired army brigadier turned analyst. "His followers will probably shift focus back to Afghanistan. This is one of the reasons why he lost support among his own tribesmen...
...opening match of Iran's avidly followed football season. After the government caught wind of plans by protesters to bring the street demonstrations into the 100,000-seat national stadium, authorities decided to have the two rival teams from Tehran and Isfahan play to an empty house rather than risk yet another embarrassing show of green and chants of "Death to the dictators...