Word: stuck
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...beginning I felt guilty. As a student of comparative literature and a thesis-writing senior come September, I felt I was committing my very own crime against literature. At the end of the school year, I packed up my belongings and stuck a reading list half a mile long—from Adorno to Zizek—into my suitcase. I left Cambridge this spring with a few goals for the summer: I would do some thesis research, work on my writing, finish up the novel I’d started, and commute to my internship in New York City...
...Mahdi Army that engulfed several cities in late March. While many Iraqi soldiers in Basra and Baghdad either refused to take up arms against other Shi'as or even handed over their weapons to them, General Ali's soldiers in Mahmudiya, the largest city in the area, stuck through five days of heavy fighting that killed five Iraqi soldiers and 25 insurgents. Ali threw approximately 1,000 Iraqi soldiers into the battle, devised and directed their missions to clear the city, and visited the battlefronts repeatedly to provide firm leadership presence. "This was Shi'a soldiers fighting Shi'a militias...
...found her political soul during the campaign but warns that she could lose the Democrats the presidency if her fervency turns to intransigence. You'll also find Karen Tumulty's smart deconstruction of Obama's strategy, which features the Democratic nominee talking candidly with her about how he has stuck to a few basic principles. We also offer Amy Sullivan's counterintuitive analysis of Hillary and women voters: that she didn't win all that many of them and that a battle is under way between optimist and pessimist feminists. Peter Beinart explains why Obama would be foolish...
...that the key to a successful purge is defining what your ideal life should look like and then deciding which of your belongings still fits in the picture. Both are also trying to draw attention to different kinds of clutter: physical, emotional, even temporal clutter. Some stuff keeps you stuck in the past and I-might-need-it-some-day clutter keeps you from focusing on the present. Here are a few of their tips figuring out what to keep and what to toss...
...haven't shown that they hear the concerns of women or religious minorities," says Altinay. "Even if they're banned, they will regroup under a new party banner and this trust issue will continue to haunt them until they deal with it head-on. Otherwise we'll be stuck in a time warp." Turkey has outlawed several predecessors of the AKP on similar grounds, although none of those ever enjoyed the popularity...