Word: thanking
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When the smoke--well, the fog of diplomacy--cleared, Saddam Hussein emerged whole from last week's confrontation with the U.S., ready to live and cheat again. For that he can thank Kofi Annan. Three times the U.N. Secretary-General insinuated himself into the showdown. By the time he was done, he had saved Saddam from the most serious attack on his regime since the Gulf...
...most of us, the pain didn't last too long--at least not long enough to prevent us from celebrating Saturday night. Perhaps we have alcohol to thank for the quick dissipation of our pain. Or perhaps we could simply be thankful that the score had been as close as it had. Even those fans who had not read a word about the team all year could tell that this year's team didn't match the professionalism of earlier squads. They may have statistically outperformed the Elis, but we just didn't make the plays we needed...
...Anonymous, and something the experts call skills training. That means having a plan ahead of time for how you're going to cope with stress, the No. 1 obstacle to kicking the habit. The favored techniques include exercise, meditation, counting to 10 while slowly exhaling, and practicing saying "no, thank you" when offered a cigarette...
...Thank you so much for Sujit Raman's column about calling home (Opinion, Nov. 17). I too receive strange looks when I tell people I call home every single day. I realized a long time ago that my parents and my sister are my best friends. This is especially important at a school like Harvard, where it is sometimes hard to find a support group. I too am glad that I left home, simply because I have grown to appreciate the closeness of my family. GHIA E. GODFREE...
Three nights later, five girls sat in a small bedroom and cheered. Nora C. Cheng '02, one of the unwilling hostesses, rejoiced, "Thank God almighty I'm free at last!" What would occasion such evangelical language? A nightmare guest the likes of which none of the traumatized girls had previously seen. A guest who brought weird boys to their common room, went through their books, answered their phone, hooked up with four guys in two nights and asked to try on their clothes, was gone. They had tried to be nice and then settled for being civil after Maggie made...