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While most Harvard students slept late on Saturday morning, the Veritones piled into a bus to Hartford, Conn. to perform with other college singing groups at the New England Showcase...
...maintained your workout schedule during the past few weeks of holiday madness, kept your cool while flagging down salesclerks and passed on the chocolate-covered treats at the office, then you have my sincere congratulations. But if you're like the rest of us, you've slept in, lost your temper and scarfed down the cookies. So now, like millions of other Americans, you have made yet another New Year's resolution to drop a few pounds, exercise more, drink less, stop smoking or just plain chill out. It won't be easy. In fact, you may have already broken...
...generally by inclination; and a profligate, largely by longing. He wanted to be the naughty boy and the good son both. He carried his collection of police badges with him everywhere, a putative peace officer who loved to disturb the peace. He was afraid of the dark, so he slept in the day, explaining, "I know in the daytime when I go to sleep that it's dark in my room, and I pretend like it's night, but I know it's daytime, and I'm not afraid to fall asleep...
...pursuing him. Thus Livingston could cling to the claim that in a sting operation run by a desperate prosecutor, he was the kind of guy who would have come clean. But the ultimate parsing in Livingston's comments was contained in his description of who it is he had slept with. He hadn't strayed with an employee, he said, skipping over the issue of whether his indiscretions might have caused a different set of problems. That discussion might have required too much parsing even for this Republican. And so he quit...
...when the sun comes up again, you wonder if the night was all a bad dream. Iraqis go about their business of struggling to survive. The cityscape looks the same, shabby but nothing worse. People talk about how little they slept, but they show no other outward signs of stress. This is a curiously surreal war that starts on schedule after dark and stops before dawn, its most intense drama and damage so far taking place mostly out of sight...