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...blankets (though how many blankets is a point of argument -- the colonel says five, which seems extravagant, and the men say fewer). They keep their possessions in cardboard boxes that they hang from what look like the railings to hold dairy cows as they are milked. The shed smells of cows (an effect both disturbing and distantly wholesome, a smell from childhood). The army insists that the building is an equipment shed...
...time to wake up and smell the eggnog. We're celebrating Christmas. And for all practical purposes, it's a secular occasion, even though it does commemorate the birth of Jesus. In case anyone didn't notice, it's a national holiday. And the fat white guy with the hardened arteries in the red suit looks too much like Karl Marx to have any connection with the kid in the manger...
...been decided. "The only way Bush can win now is by carrying states X, Y and Z," they say, knowing full well that Bush can't carry states X, Y and Z and cannot win even if he does. Or they drop little hints of the true outcome -- "The smell of change is in the air tonight, Peter" -- as if these insights derive from years of experience and exquisitely sensitive journalistic nostrils rather than from cold, hard numbers on a computer screen in front of them...
...windows in the hope of detecting a party to bust. "Out of the hallway!" I shouted from the doorway, where I remained for the better part of an hour, nursing a mug of Milwaukee's Best Extra Gold Draft Lite while hordes of first-years, who can smell keg beer from anywhere on campus, tramped up and down the stairwell...
...There's everything objectionable about it," Barron said. "It spreads disease, and it's bad for business because of the smell and the appearance...