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...paying for it in this way." Beverly's fresh-faced innocence makes him the target of barracks humor. "It's like a fraternity," he says, looking up at the writing on the hooch's walls, which feature unflattering allusions to his manhood. "If they don't screw with you, they don't like you," he says...
...Frodo spoke for many. This was surely the year in which we ambled hopefully, foolishly, gamely into the dark. Some would like to ascribe the many human failings of the year to willful deception. Bush lied! But cover-ups are not as common in human history as screw-ups. This was, rather, a year in which we all got it wrong. It was the year of living erroneously...
...useful to recognize this in a hubristic, technological age. We still don't know a lot. We screw up. We fail even as we succeed. We do not know everything. As Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld pronounced, there are "known unknowns," and then there are "unknown unknowns." Some things are actually quite hard to fix because the systems behind them are intricate, complicated and created by humans. New Yorkers and the inhabitants of a whole swath of North America spent a delirious, humid night in the complete dark in August, and for hours no one had a clue why the power...
...performances are exactly alike, mostly because we screw up a lot,” Blickstead says...
...course! This is a no-brainer. But the fools now running U.S. foreign policy will no doubt find a way to screw up this opportunity, too. The perception that U.S. policy in the Mideast is largely directed by Ariel Sharon and the Likud party of Israel is unfortunately gaining credibility. Richard Polese Santa...