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...only to be defied for more than a decade. He has never, in his 24-year dictatorship, shown the least willingness to reform, even when his people nearly starved under the brunt of international sanctions. "In my judgment," said Bush last week, "you don't hope that therapy will somehow change his evil mind...
Suleiman was born and raised in Nazareth and moved at 17 to New York City (where, he says, "I practiced being an illegal immigrant"). In 1989 he went home and picked up his brother's old vhs camera. "I started by filming sheep," he says. "Somehow sheep manage to pose very well." Now he lives in France, where he shot his film's more incendiary scenes. In Palestine, you can't get a movie permit to blow up an Israeli tank...
...When I told our real estate agent our housing budget?more than an average Shanghainese's yearly income?she shook her head and said it might be tough to find something suitable for such a paltry sum. Nevertheless, she offered up some extravagant options, hopeful that extra cash would somehow materialize in our pockets...
...their heads in exasperation at the umpteenth senior writing the umpteenth editorial about a situation which is the obvious result of four-fifths bad planning and one-fifth unadulterated procrastination. I like to think of it as denial. Mixed in with bad planning and procrastination is the hope that somehow, next year, some new course will be offered that will offer respite from watching leopards mate with half of the freshman class. And lo, that class appears and while you warm your hands on the corner of the radiator allotted to you in a room that seems to include your...
...Happy study card day” doesn’t have quite the same ring, somehow, as “Happy New Year.” Neither does today’s less-august event occasion the kisses, toasts and choruses of “Auld Lang Syne” that ushered in 2003. But today is a holiday of sorts—one marked by a memo from the registrar and a highlighted page in your dayplanner—and in the spirit of the day I offer my best wishes and this story...