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...Ditch or Stitch...
Perhaps this is being too much a worrywort. Pappin is hardly the first—nor will he be the last—to stitch together academic knowledge and an ideology of discrimination. But I fear that when we leave Harvard, we will not have the privilege of living in a community which so naturally rejects homophobia. Out there, it will take a gathering of all of our intellectual resources to wage war against hateful discrimination and to reshape our society into one of genuine equality...
...stomach casualties, so his strategy was the same--betting that a heavy body count of U.S. soldiers and Iraqi civilians would drive Western public opinion to demand a cease-fire. Not that he has shown concern about the deaths of his people. The Pentagon claims Saddam had tailors stitch up 15,000 British and American uniforms so that disguised Iraqi troops could attack Iraqi civilians, allowing Saddam to blame the allies. The enormous antiwar demonstrations in the West prior to the fighting may have emboldened Saddam into thinking the Americans could be made to fold...
...Cyprus, the Mediterranean island that has been divided into Greek and Turkish enclaves since Turkey invaded the north in 1974. So when U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan visits Cyprus this week as part of an attempt to enforce the U.N.'s Feb. 28 deadline for a plan to stitch the island back together, he will not be dealing with defeated incumbent Glafcos Clerides, who was favorably disposed toward reunification. Instead, Annan will have to address the ideology of canny President-elect Papadopoulos, who has a long, rejectionist history of opposing settlements. Annan can take some comfort from the fact that...
...Redline is no kitchen nook, and Stitch and Bitch is certainly not your grandma’s knitting circle. The club welcomes a wide range of participants, from 20-year-olds to retirees. But despite the inter-generational mix, Marcus notes a definite skew toward “young urban professionals.” Hence Redline as ideal gathering spot—after all, where better for said young urban professionals to relax than at a bar with drink in hand. “A lot of people in the high tech industry have learned to relax by going...