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...struggle. Israel, for its part, has no faith in negotiations with the Palestinian leadership and has made clear it plans to unilaterally redraw its borders; all the while, it is responding to rockets fired from Gaza with military strikes. But the sum total of all of these pressures may spell the collapse of the Palestinian Authority, leaving Israel living alongside a chaotic political entity not altogether unlike Somalia: awash with guns, broken into mini-fiefdoms ruled by unstable coalitions of warlords, and fertile soil for al-Qaeda...
...government believe the split within the L.T.T.E. has weakened the rebels to a point where they can be beaten in war. Chalk and other observers predict a full-scale attack by the Tigers on Jaffna, accompanied by suicide bombs in Colombo. "If war breaks out it will spell doom to the entire country and create an unbridgeable ethnic chasm," says the L.T.T.E.'s Balasingham. That realization makes it no less likely to happen...
...Mercer was there too. "How Little We Know," for which Hoagy Carmichael provided the plangent melody, boasts a lovely sense of ignorance toward a potential affair: "Who knows why an April breeze never remains? / Why the stars in the trees hide when it rains? / Love comes along casting a spell, / Will it sing you a song, / Will it say a farewell? / Who can tell?" And at times, Mercer could twist a song's kicker. "Tangerine," written with Victor Schertzinger for The Fleet's In, sounds for most of its length like a standard number about an elusive goddess. The codas...
...unease that not enough is being done right now to improve the productivity and, hence, the living standards of future generations. The Commonwealth is debt-free; Howard and Costello have cut government debt with the relish one only sees in workaholic couples who are under the spell of their bank manager's mortgage repayment simulator. So what is a 10-year-old, extremely fortunate administration doing to underwrite a splendid future...
...stuck in the suburbs of New Jersey. not so literary, but really entertaining.5. Know Your Audience.On the thread “Summary of your prefrosh weekend”:Here’s the part you’ll be interested in: the A Cappella jam was amazing.6. Spell Check.Here’s a list of what I have read recently1. Invisibly Man by Ralph Ellison7. Don’t Leave.If, for any reason, you feel the need to escape Harvard for a few hours (why would you want to do that? I have no idea--this is just hypothetical...