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...truth what I miss most is not home entertainment, it's home life. In the past four years, my wife Bipasha and I have rarely been on the same continent at the same time - she works in Singapore, and I shuttle between Baghdad and New York City. Somehow, the distance feels greater when I'm in Iraq. If it's difficult for me, it's doubly so for her, knowing that I'm constantly in harm's way. Bipasha jokes that her coping mechanism is a voodoo doll bearing a remarkable likeness to my boss, which she pokes with...
...million insects working in blind harmony. Mounds can reach 7 m high and 12 m around the base, and may have taken a century or more of painstaking construction. The termites mix a drop of saliva with soil, plant matter and excrement and deposit it like a tiny brick; somehow, in the darkness, each knows where to place its contribution to form the maze of tunnels and chambers that harden like concrete...
...just that when I go home and realize my friends will reach many of those “firsts” we used to talk about long before I’ll even have my first job, I sometimes wonder if, by going to Harvard, I’ve somehow avoided the difficult business of growing...
...Lebanese government, which includes Hizballah. In other words, it won't try to disarm Hizballah unless Hizballah has agreed to be disarmed. And the only formula likely to achieve that objective on the basis of the current battlefield situation would be an agreement among Lebanese parties to somehow incorporate Hizballah's fighting forces into the Lebanese Army - which may not be quite what the U.S., and certainly not Israel, had in mind...
...secret,” Mama Gideon saucily informs me when I ask the names of those on the committee. If my enumeration of my project’s “beneficiaries” sufficiently pleases the committee, which meets next month—I somehow resisted the temptation to scrawl jokingly “lumpenproletariat” in florid capital letters—I need only pay a $300 “research clearance fee” and then I can begin.Yes, it’s my third consecutive summer in Africa, but, as in any good fable, there?...