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...means that our school spirit is running higher than Yale’s reparation debts. Hell, Peter even dyed his toilet bowl crimson, although that could have been because he ate a shattered beer bottle on a dare. But the spirit doesn’t stop there, and, as usual, we’ve been sucked into the classic rivalry...
LIKE MANY PEOPLE, I'm incapable of separating my dislike of world music from my dislike of the dinner parties at which it's played. But Egypt, winner in the Best Contemporary World Music category, is not the usual easy-listening exotica shrink-wrapped for the appetizer course. The melodies traipse from Cairo to Dakar; the lyrics are in Wolof; the liner notes offer translation and explain that the songs are about Sufi scholars, most of whom seem to practice a West African strain of Islamic Calvinism. Lest you fear learning something, N'Dour's voice sweeps and swells with...
...sanctions on Kim's dictatorial regime would do even more damage. History has proved that such economic sanctions would bring more suffering to the broad population of the country, while the ruthless tyrant, his army generals and his close Communist Party buddies would enjoy the horn of plenty as usual. It is time for the Bush Administration to eat humble pie after this failure and use diplomacy rather than threatening language. Syed Rashid Ali Shah Vroomshoop, the Netherlands If after the 9/11 attacks the U.S. had persevered in flushing the Taliban out of power in Afghanistan rather than starting...
Despite the missing items, the suite was not in more disarray than usual, according to Ragalie...
...drivers had "volunteered" to refrain from using their vehicles. The Air Pollution Index responded grudgingly, slowly falling until finally, on the last day of the meeting, it had dipped into a range considered normal anywhere else in the world. By the next day, though traffic was back to its usual chaotic state and the index had shot back into "unhealthy" territory. And Draconian measures to keep the air clean for a three-day summit would be considerably more difficult to impose over a 17-day sporting festival...