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Still, Hosseim's younger brother wants to follow him to Italy. "He says: 'I can't stay here; there's nothing for me here.' I tell him not to come, but he thinks I'm not telling the truth about my life here," says Hosseim as he sits in a small apartment he shares with four other Moroccans. "All young people think there's money and cars waiting for you. But when you come, you see it's different...
...idea: scrap "don't ask, don't tell." The estimated 65,000 gays and lesbians wearing the nation's uniform are not able to confide in doctors, psychologists and other counselors without fear of dismissal - a wasteful impediment to achieving full mental health. Meanwhile, the loss of 12,000 competent gays and lesbians has needlessly lengthened the tours of duty of the rest of the force. Nathaniel Frank, BROOKLYN...
...What do the candidates' gambling proclivities tell us about who they are? Politicians talk of their campaigns as grand contests of ideas. But in practice, the political battle is both a crapshoot and a poker game, a study in managing risk and in manipulating people. And there is no bigger gamble than a presidential run, which both candidates have conducted very differently this cycle. McCain's campaign, like his life, has been marked by its embrace of living dangerously and by clear runs of fortune and disappointment. Obama, meanwhile, has succeeded, no less remarkably, by diligently executing a premeditated strategy...
...should be a rising freshman. I turn 19 this November, at which time I'll be well into the first semester of my junior year. Most people tell me I'm mature for my age and that they would never have guessed how old I was. Usually, I believe them. But after my first day living alone in a three-bedroom apartment (the other two rooms in my sublet are empty for the summer), all I wanted to do was call my mommy. Yet while I'm not always immediately grown-up, I tend to learn and adapt fast, perhaps...
...Somebody tell that to Chris Ward...