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...makes a myriad of assumptions regarding Mr. Lane, which we challenge him to substantiate. First, Weinberger makes the claim that “he was basically a professional from the very beginning” and further alleges that Lane’s hockey experience prior to admission at Harvard somehow ought to have rendered him ineligible. While Mr. Weinberger may not be familiar with the world of athletics, it is more the rule than the exception to play on numerous club teams and select teams—even taking years between high school and college to do so. To suggest...
...tres joli," she crooned persistently in French. We smiled politely and walked past. She followed. "Very pretty for you," she tried again. Soon, we were surrounded by women with huge earrings, tiny hands and absolutely unshakable sales determination. A few minutes' worth of sign-language barter later, we had somehow acquired four blankets...
...families in trouble, babies often represent a last chance at salvation, a belief that somehow their innocence and purity can breathe new life into something gone dull or awry. In the giant, dysfunctional family that is modern Japan, then, the birth of a baby princess on Saturday offers, at long last, a glimmer of hope, some feel-good news to lift the collective spirit and hold out the promise of a national rejuvenation. And maybe even boost the stock market. An absurd notion, sure, but there hasn't been much of anything to cheer about in Japan...
...roam the yard for five hours a day and occasionally punch volleyballs over a net that still hangs there. There were no beatings, says a former inmate named Abdullah. "For punishment, they'd make us chop wood," he says. Today, documents are scattered across the clerk's floor and somehow Abdullah the thief has won a job as a guard. He isn't busy. Jalalabad has neither prisoners nor courts to sentence them. Commander Zaman explains that he offered someone a job as judge but was turned down...
...doubt it? The world's sole surviving superpower, and its most fabulously successful democracy, could not be unarrogant if it tried. But the arrogance is complicated. In the American mind, arrogance coexists with a surprising, even squirming self-effacement - a perverse impulse, for example, to think that somehow Americans may have deserved 9/11 for their sins (notably, the sin of arrogance!). Or the touchingly strange concern in the U.S. that 9/11 might lead Americans to think anti-Islamic thoughts, perhaps be rude to Arabs...