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...only a couple of seconds left. I squeeze the trigger-"gently," says my instructor, Peter, "so it's a surprise when the gun goes off." Bang! The rifle kicks back into my shoulder, there's a sudden reek of gunpowder, and my focus flies forward as I try (in vain) to follow the bullet to the target. "I think you winged him," Peter says...
...being pushed out to make way for the class of 2010. I wasn’t jealous of the prefrosh, it was more of an acute sense of frustration: just when I finally figured this place out, it’s time to move on. In perhaps a vain attempt to spare others this frustration, I have complied a list of 10 things I wish I learned sooner (to the extent that I ever really learned them). As Oscar Wilde once wrote, “The only thing to do with good advice is to pass...
...which they believe in, so they're willing to continue to sacrifice until those aims are met. That's why Lincoln's address at Gettysburg was so central. It gave people, in such soaring language, the idea that these young men who had died had not died in vain. In World War II, there was a consensus over what had to be done in fighting Hitler and fascism. Now people are not sure why we're fighting [in Iraq]. All of these things lessen support, as we see month by month, and will make it much harder for the President...
...girl. After logging onto Facebook.com, I entered “Harvard, traveling, girl” into the search engine. 108 profiles appeared. But while scanning the pictures, hoping that her Facebook photo would bear at least a passing resemblance to her actual appearance (many times a vain hope), it occurred to me that there are really only two types of female Facebook profile pictures. First is the girl whose picture is a “group shot” of her with her girlfriends; she hopes to impress guys by advertising her popularity, but does not realize that this tactic...
...Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made her way around the Middle East this week trying in vain to convince Arab governments to cut all funding to a Hamas-led government, the U.S. and Israel both found themselves struggling to find a workable response to an unanticipated reality. The only way the U.S.-Israeli effort to isolate a Hamas-led Palestinian government will succeed, right now, is if Hamas were to launch new terror strikes against Israel. And that's precisely the reason why Palestinian observers and Israeli security analysts expect the radical Islamist movement to maintain and extend the cease...