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...confident about things - about ourselves, our kids, about our plans; I sometimes think it's our greatest asset. But it can also be our greatest weakness. That confidence was one of the things that helped fool many of us into thinking we could march into Iraq and make everything swell. It could now fool us into thinking that it's going to be relatively easy to get out. Coming or going, our storied confidence blinds us to all kinds of problems we can't see or imagine. And Iraq, more than most places, is full of those kinds of things...
...white horror movie: the innocent young girl is apprehensively peering around the corner or creeping up the creaky staircase; shadows flit across the wall; a door slams shut; just when you least expect it, Dracula jumps out and grabs our terrified heroine, complete with a big, climactic organ swell! Now would the scene have been at all frightening without those cacophonous organ notes? Certainly not. Maybe the Harvard Organ Society didn’t have such dramatic ideas behind their midnight Halloween concert, but nine performers explored the spookier side of the instrument late Tuesday evening.The Society...
...careers, and hopefully pick up a few business cards along the way. Around 1,100 students are currently participating in the on-campus recruiting program, according to Director of the Office of Career Services [OCS] William Wright-Swadel. Before the end of the year, that number is likely to swell to 1,600 or more as curious sophomores and freshmen, in search of internships and information, jump into the mix, he added. “It’s seductive,” Wright-Swadel said of OCS’s on-campus recruiting program, explaining that the comprehensive system...
...contracted MRSA. “The second person got a rash and some bumps.” According to McLeod, as the bacteria spread to more players, the symptoms intensified. “The guy who had it before me got it on his calf and it sort of swelled up. I got it on my foot and it swelled up to the point where I couldn’t walk and I had to be hospitalized for a few days,” he said. Even teammates who were not infected felt the effects of the disease...
...Idle, naturally, demurs. "I wouldn't describe myself as self-confident," he says. "I was just totally ignorant.... Performing is a good way of hiding... hiding in the spotlight." It was also a swell way to be noticed. In just over four years he'd gone from the orphanage to Cambridge to the leading TV satire show. As he recalled: "To be 23 and on The Frost Report was really cool...