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...daily into the netherworld of Fallujah, the restive Sunni city where many of the hostages end up, al-Khazraji has met an assortment of shadowy informants. Some claim to know Rifat's whereabouts; others say they can deliver him for cash. "I feel like I'm hanging by a thread in this web," says al-Khazraji. "And I am dealing with ghosts...
...visit. (Warning: wine is fragile. I ruined a delicious case of Fox Run Riesling on a beastly hot day a few years back when my car's air conditioner was on the fritz.) On the east side of the lake, must visits and buys include the wineries Silver Thread (the area's only organic producer), Standing Stone and Red Newt. Among the preferred west-side wineries are Fox Run and the rightfully acclaimed Hermann J. Wiemer. Try to snare a room at the Geneva on the Lake resort, a real beauty equipped with pool and croquet, the perfect balm after...
...common thread here is that all of the non-conference tests for the big three come at home, giving each squad a very good chance of posting a clean 3-0 non-Ivy record. At the very worst, the three Ivy powerhouses should go 2-1 in those three games. That would set Penn, Harvard and Yale up to finish anywhere from 7-3 to 10-0—records which would keep those three teams on the top 25 radar all season long...
Finding a common thread in the economist’s work, though, is difficult. Pursuing a variety of projects over the course of his career, Sen has veered increasingly from his own field and into others. His intellectual hallmark, colleagues say, has become the intense interdisciplinary quality of his work—a trajectory that has drawn him outside the traditional boundaries of his field and into politics and philosophy...
According to Ma, it is important to bring music to the community and to thread music into the essential weave of daily life because “music is one of the best ways that we have as human beings to express a part of ourselves.” Ma recommends a musical education because it helps to establish a universal line of communication...