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...People don’t fly on airplanes unless they feel that flying on airplanes is a safe thing to do. Thus, it is necessary to project an aura of security. As ineffectual as they are under the light of statistical scrutiny, all of the new security procedures nevertheless succeed at making travelers believe that flights are safe. I mean, what better way to make the average flyer feel like security is tight than for the TSA dude to pat down grandma and make 7 year-olds put their shoes through the metal detectors. If security is this tight...
...brutalized invaded territory - gives the talks a profound moral dimension. John Howard's government spent considerable political capital and diplomatic effort on Timorese independence; it sent 5,700 troops and led the U.N.'s interfet peacekeeping force. "Having helped to liberate East Timor, Australia is obliged to see it succeed," says a western diplomat in Dili. Australian Greens Senator Bob Brown went to Timor during the talks to speak with non-government organizations. "I'm personally appalled by the injustice of Australia wielding the big stick to get East Timor's resources," he says. "Even though...
...first semester at Harvard—usually when the temperature drops and the greenery disappears—we realize that this imposing institution is not merely an extension of the academic experience, but also our new home. This is where we eat and sleep, learn and socialize, fail and succeed and build life-changing relationships...
...just kind of knew that David—in whatever area he set out for—he had that passion and love for the game [to succeed],” Walsh said...
...military operation against him in the Shiite holy city. Everyone from Grand Ayatollah Sistani, the moderate elder of the Iraqi clerics on whose consent the entire transition process rests, to Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN diplomat to whom the Bush administration is looking to devise a political formula that will succeed where Washington's have failed, have warned the U.S. against sending troops into the city. It's precisely because of the Americans' difficulties in risking an invasion of Najaf that Moqtada and his Mahdi militia holed up there in the first place...