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...only we choose to recognize it. Make eye contact with those acquaintances from freshman year you pass in the Yard but haven’t spoken to in years. Smile at them. Eat a meal in the dining hall with somebody you’ve never met before. Strike up a conversation. Let them know that if they were to disappear tomorrow, even you—who hardly knew them—would notice...
...Iraq is not ready to govern itself by June 30, with functioning, legitimate democratic institutions, a nascent civil society and an effective police force (it’s 0 for 3 right now), then America needs to continue controlling the reconstruction effort until the country is ready to strike...
...snow finally melts, stretch your legs. Strike out for Porter or for Central or just for the Quad. Make a gratuitous trip to Vanserg, and when you tell your friends about it at dinner, don’t make it sound as though it were a martyrdom. Spring came Saturday morning; you’ll see it best from the sidewalk...
...Casablanca attacks were all suicide bombings. So far, Spanish investigators have found no evidence that suicide bombers were at work in Madrid. "They were in Spain for a reason," says independent expert Roland Jacquard. "The thesis now is ... they've been continuing work there to replicate the Casablanca strike in even bolder form...
...write a western but to explore a society just starting to form its laws. He first pitched to HBO a series about cops in Rome during Nero's reign. After that project fizzled, he started reading about Deadwood, a town that sprang up when reports of a gold strike were hyped to justify expansion into Indian territory. "It was like time-lapse photography," he says. "Two months before [Deadwood begins], there was nothing. Two years later, they had telephones, before San Francisco did." The settlement had no laws, purposely. "It was a primordial soup," Milch says. "How do people organize...