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...week boot camp on the west coast of Norway took a few thousand future soldiers through physical training, marching and lessons in weaponry. “You take your gun apart about 2,000 times a day,” Klokk says with a roll of his eyes. The extensive training seems to have left him relatively unscathed. “It’s not so hard,” he says coolly. “It’s the fact they keep you going all the time. You get very little sleep. You’re always...
...HUPD officers were sent to Eliot House to shut down a party, after receiving a report of a thousand unruly students. Officers from the Cambridge Police Department (CPD) arrived to help disperse the students...
...fringe than most people who will shell out to see The Two Towers, but as John Adcox, 38, a fantasy fan in Atlanta, points out, it's all relative. "If I told you about a group that dresses oddly, paints their bodies and gathers by the thousand to share an enthusiasm, who would you think of?" he asks. "Right, football fans." Point taken...
...history has no culmination! There is always as much in front as behind. There is no libretto. History knocks at a thousand gates at every moment, and the gatekeeper is chance. ... We need wit and courage to make our way while our way is making us. ... What kind of beast is this ... this Moloch who promises us that everything will be beautiful after we're dead? A distant end is not an end but a trap. The end we work for must be closer: the labourer's wage, the pleasure in the work done, the summer lightning of personal happiness...
...Quiz: Oslo tastes like a) Lutefisk; b) Reindeer; c) Raisin buns; d) Um, you're weird - a city doesn't taste of anything. There's no absolute right answer, but I'd choose c). Every city has its own flavor, and I can't think about Norway's thousand-year-old, Viking-founded capital (pop. 515,000) without recalling the flavor of its traditional raisin buns - warm puffs of barely cinnamony bread punctuated by sweet morsels of fruit...