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Debate on the question has long raged in the city. A year ago this month, Harvard hosted a debate between a Graduate School of Education professor and Silicon Valley millionaire Ron Unz, who proposed Question...
...impressive show of force. Under the cloak of darkness last week, Chinook and Black Hawk choppers dropped an entire battalion of 520 U.S. paratroopers into a remote valley in Afghanistan, just across the border from the rugged mountains of Pakistan, where al-Qaeda has re-established training camps. With dogs barking, cows chewing and a watchful camel resting, the heavily armed U.S. force trudged through irrigated fields and muddy Pashtun villages--cordoning off a 3.5-mile-long area and searching each of 150 residential compounds that dangle off the nosebleed hillsides by the Kakh and Khardala rivers...
Johnny Knoxville stumbles into the Valley Presbyterian Hospital in Van Nuys, Calif., shivering and bleeding from his head, woozy with a concussion--but the staff just laughs at him. "Hey, it's Johnny Knoxville!" yells a male nurse. "A stunt must have gone bad, huh?" Knoxville has a blood-soaked gauze tourniquet wrapped around the top of his head and is wearing a pink bathrobe; he looks like a cross-dressing Civil War re-enactor. He needs half a dozen or so stitches to the back of his scalp but decides to leave the hospital when the doctors refuse...
Snootiness, of course, remains a hallmark of the wine trade. Some boutique vineyards in California's Napa Valley don't want their wines merchandised in stores that also sell gallon-size containers of French's mustard, so they shun Costco. Andrew says, "They don't understand that the demographic of our members is so high." Nor do they appreciate that a lot of wealthy folks got that way because they have an eye for a bargain. --By Daren Fonda/Dallas
...north. One and Two were on it too fast for us to get over to help them; they followed the gunmen off the road, and when the figures doubled back to Jenin, they gave pursuit into Palestinian territory. We were still several minutes away when they rolled into a valley on the outskirts of the city and were trapped under the sudden heavy fire of Palestinian militants and police shooting out of apartment windows and from rooftops...