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...roommates was half-Finnish, and coached us on the correct pronunciation of sauna (“Not ‘saw-na!’ There’s no such thing as a ‘saw-na.’ It’s ‘sow-ow-na!”); another, of Uruguayan descent, explained the finer points of gender roles in Uruguay, as well as why she found bad Uruguay-related puns so unfunny; a third taught us Greek invectives. Neither was cultural identification a phenomenon limited to my room; at the activities fair...
...suppose there’s nothing inherently wrong with adulthood. What troubles me is—and please forgive me my generalizations—the danger of our passing directly from sober childhood to sober adulthood. What troubles me is the danger of our being too intent on someday sowing grass seed in our front yards in Greenwich, Connecticut, to ever sow any wild oats. It is not our precocious adulthood that troubles me so much as our precocious yuppiedom...
...Once, as if by mistake, and in order to sow the seeds for deeper frustration, the Tigers won the Japan Series (once, that is, in 68 years). But otherwise, as with the Cubs of America (Osaka is perennially called Japan's Chicago), their place in the national pageant, and the seasonal order, is as the lovable bumpkin and comic prop. This year, though, not according to plan, the Tigers soared into first place in April and then refused to leave. They trounced the Giants, again and again (and their rivals' woes are compounded by the fact that...
With U.S. forces trying to close in on Saddam Hussein and a new Iraqi governing council trying to assert its authority, armed insurgents are expanding the scope of their attacks to sow fear among ordinary Iraqis and discourage them from cooperating with the U.S. The targeting of civilians escalated to terrifying new heights last Thursday, when at least eight and as many as 19 people were killed and more than 50 injured in a car bombing of the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad--the deadliest incident of any kind since the fall of Saddam's regime. Though senior intelligence officials...
...only vague answers. "There was no way to see the true picture," she says. Some of these ambiguities and discrepancies are supposed to disappear over the next two years as European companies switch to new international accounting standards that are closer to the U.S. rules. But the changeover could sow more confusion. At Bouygues, a French construction and telecommunications company, for example, finance chief Olivier Poupart-Lafarge says he expects managers will return to using two sets of books: one for external investors and regulators who use the new standards, and another for internal use by managers who prefer...