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When East Timorese voted for independence from Indonesia last Aug. 30, many outsiders sensed a political and economic disaster. What good could come to 850,000 people living on half an island a thousand miles from nowhere? Sure enough, after the vote, the rebuffed Indonesian troops killed, burned and looted all they could on their way home. A graffito they left on the walls of Dili promised that A FREE EAST TIMOR WILL EAT STONES. Some 1,000 East Timorese died, and more than three-quarters of the population fled their homes, according to U.N. estimates. East Timor joined...
...Randy Moss and Cris Carter and running back Robert Smith--each better than any weapon he had ever had in Miami--in Minnesota, he showed the world what his priorities were. Not even the best shot at winning his dreamed-of title in years was worth living a few thousand miles away from his family for just six months...
...they're in my favor. Of almost 400,000 who have received the shot so far, the Pentagon reports only 102 "adverse reactions" (with just 14 serious enough to warrant time off from work). Meanwhile, various news articles quote anti-inoculation groups as saying the figure is about a thousand. So, if I split the difference and quadruple the military's numbers - to, say, 400 - that's still 1,000 to 1 that I come away with nothing worse than a bump on my arm, which...
...campus wants to go to a [council] dance" that is in the Quad and dry. But the great majority of dances at this school are "dry," and we all know that those who want to drink do so before the dances anyway. Plus, the Quad is home to several thousand Harvard students and dances there are usually filled to capacity...
Coach and Chief know everyone's name and at their semi-weekly open houses they serve several thousand pieces of their famous monkey-bread...