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...remember, it’s existed there as a magical possibility. Growing up in Silicon Valley—where computer chips tend to garner far more excitement than “impractical” things like poetry—the idea of a place in which people gather round the ashtray Saturday nights to discuss Kafka’s lost manuscripts seemed incredible. Sure, that initial perception may have been laughably idealistic. And yet everything I watched, read, or heard about seemed to bolster it: Columbia-based Jewish literary criticism...
...back again for another riveting round of Gossip Girl storyline ratings. Last night's episode was actually pretty hilar. So, Nate has an idea, Vanessa has a mom, Blair turns Chuck gay, everyone wears chunky necklaces, and Scott dies (okay, wishful thinking). The usual, after the jump. Only a few spoilers this time...
...other four Crimson competitors had great starts but ended up bowing out early. Nguyen, Schultz, and Felton failed to make it past the round of 32, but freshman Joshua Tchan provided another highlight for Harvard as he reached the round of 16. On Sunday, Tchan lost to Marist’s Loic Sessagesimi, 6-3, 6-0. It was a short tournament for Felton, who was ranked 13, and for Nguyen, who fared well at last week’s tournament...
...acceptance by Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai that ballot fraud has stripped him of his first-round re-election victory potentially removes the last obstacle cited by the Obama Administration to sending thousands more U.S. troops into the war. White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel said over the weekend that reinforcements could not be sent until the allegations of electoral fraud had been resolved, because the U.S. counterinsurgency strategy depends on defending a legitimate government. But the Afghan electoral commission's ruling that, after fraudulent ballots were discarded, Karzai had failed to win an outright majority in the first...
There is no easy solution to Afghanistan's election mess. If the ECC removes enough fraudulent votes, Karzai will fall below 50%, and there will be a second round of voting. However, the factors that caused problems on Aug. 20 - ghost polling stations, corrupt election staff and a partisan commission - are still present. Dealing with those factors will require leadership that the head of the U.N. mission has yet to demonstrate. If Karzai emerges the winner of the rushed and incomplete audit process now under way, Afghanistan's internal peace will depend on Karzai's opponents accepting - or at least...