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...overwhelming, Billy Madison-esque, Ferris Bueller-ish urge to tell my younger readers (including any literate pre-frosh out there) to enjoy their ignorant bliss while they still can. The future comes far too quickly and the last thing you want is to be caught with your pants down. Unless, of course, exotic dancing is what you had planned all along...
...Unless, of course, this entire plan doesn’t work out and I’m forced to figure out something else to do when I grow up. Or maybe that’s the answer—I can avoid the trouble of finding an awesome dream job if I just refuse to grow up. Somehow, I don’t think I’ll have any problem with that for the foreseeable future...
...longer the WMD hunt drags on, the more that opponents of the war will charge it was fought under false pretenses. And if the allies do find any material they believe could be used to build weapons of mass destruction, their claims may not be accepted unless verified by an objective body. British officials, including Prime Minister Tony Blair, endorsed the idea of sending U.N. weapons inspectors back into Iraq to finish the job interrupted by the war. But the Bush Administration is cool to the idea, and other nations aren't clamoring to join in the hunt. At least...
Soldiers initially told not to respond to looters unless their own safety was threatened--the British high command "doesn't want us to make ourselves unpopular here," said a British soldier--were eventually given freer rein. By Friday the BBC was reporting that British soldiers shot and killed five bank robbers in Basra. The Pentagon imposed a nighttime curfew on Baghdad, and on Saturday, despite a fire fight downtown, the capital overall was much calmer. The looting had subsided, residents were returning to the city, and many shops and restaurants had reopened. In days to come, the U.S. hopes...
...protest the crushing of the Prague Spring by Soviet tanks. Adamec explained in a 1,500-word suicide note posted on the Web that he was following Palach's example to protest "the so-called democratic system where not people but money and power rule." He warned that "unless humankind radically changes its ways within the next several decades, civilization will perish in filth or wars." Adamec's grievances were many: violence in movies and on TV, environmental pollution, the U.S.-led war in Iraq, bullying and drug use in Czech schools. But the effect of his actions has been...