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...Slow and Steady It was at once sad and edifying to read that British navy mascot Timothy the Tortoise died in Britain at age 160 [April 19]. Despite wars, ethnic and religious strife, environmental destruction and the ongoing extinction of wildlife species, Timothy was a fortunate tortoise who endured and endeared during a monumentally long existence. And even though this turtle was a distinguished navy veteran, we can assume that it was unaffected by fame and not prone to vainglory! Brien Comerford Glenview...
...couple of hundred Fallujans who fled the fighting in their town are now living in tents pitched on a dusty lot in a residential Baghdad neighborhood. When I visited Umm Khalid, a sad-looking woman there, she told me that I shouldn't view her as poor. "I am well-educated. I drive my own car," she said, waving her hand around her neatly arranged, well-swept tent as if to compare it with those of her messier neighbors. The proud woman's son Fahad Salaam, 15, was playing in the front yard of the family home in Fallujah...
...once sad and edifying to read that British navy mascot Timothy the Tortoise died in Britain at age 160 [April 19]. Despite wars, ethnic and religious strife, environmental destruction and the ongoing extinction of wildlife species, Timothy was a fortunate tortoise who endured and endeared during a monumentally long existence. BRIEN COMERFORD Glenview...
Still, though, “[the time off] has been kind of sad, because I wanted to contribute so badly to the team...
...notion underlying the Kennedy School was that we should help people do public service. And one of the facts of life—sad, but nonetheless a fact—is that service in government pays less than business,” said Gotbaum, who is currently bankruptcy trustee of Hawaiian Airlines...