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...enormous sympathy for it after the vile acts of 9/11. I still do. But an almost unilateral, pre-emptive strike on Iraq in defiance of the U.N. (with no conclusive link between Iraq and al-Qaeda) and the subsequent Vietnamization of the war on terrorism are hard to swallow. Will Barrow Melbourne...
...fiction.” Cynicism aside—he was talking more about flow and style than about fabrication—my teacher’s approach seems to be the difference between self-study as a way of expanding our views, and self-study that threatens to swallow us (the kind of writing that my blockmate had ridiculed). That is, if I am going to spend my time stringing words together, I hope that these strings become the ties that bind, not constrict...
...hard is it to swallow? I can’t think of any taste in my mouth that would be worse that this,” said Princeton coach Roger Hughes...
What changes in U.S. policy toward Iraq, while unfamiliar to the White House and painful to swallow, would constitute a strategy with a good enough prospect of eventual success so as to head off the option of copping out? While there are no policy changes that can avoid peril, this is the jam that we’ve gotten ourselves into, and sticking to the current scheme courts disaster. There are several components which might constitute a strategy worth pursuing...
...work. Beer bashes every Friday. Skateboarding in the halls. Frisbee at lunchtime. This kind of culture was the epitome of the new economy, where the players worked hard and the workers played hard, all in a fuchsia-colored office turned Disneyland with all the caramel lattes you could swallow. There was oodles of money to be earned, even if the company didn't make a dime, and the best part was that you could have fun--real adolescent, prankster, thumb-your-nose-at-the-principal kind of junior high school fun. "Hey, we're working, and it's a party...