Word: wanderlied
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...Coop keeps its greeting cards in three brief aisles on the second floor of its Palmer Street annex. Until ten minutes after seven, the area is virtually empty. A few customers finger through the rows of greeting cards and wander among the software racks...
...learned this year, that there are so many men at Harvard who feel completely isolated—not only from their own peers, but from their very own sexuality. Sometimes, late at night, the secretly gay wander near our rooms, or call our collective phones, trying to convince my roommates to spend a few moments—or a night—with them when no one’s looking. And there are always those who linger too long in the elevator, or brush up against my roommates in the dining hall, making us all wonder if the Mather...
...that way.” I compliment him on his arm definition and ask where he learned these skills. Modestly, he chalks it up to life experience and “common sense.” While two excited prefrosh bust out their moves on an Annenberg table, we wander aimlessly through the dining hall, eventually settling on a table in the back...
...their personal losses. Baghdad, filled first with rejoicing, then recriminations, after Saddam's fall, has shifted now to bearing witness. People gather at prison gates to review their life inside, a diet of torture and starvation. Shiites describe the secular indignities imposed by Saddam. And families of the missing wander from prisoner welfare groups to empty government offices in search of answers they dared not ask when the Sunni regime was still in power...
...confidence and aristocratic manner can come across as arrogance, especially when he's out cultivating popular support. As he stood in Nasiriyah last week listening to farmers and teachers detailing their complaints and needs, his gaze would wander over their shoulders. To detractors, especially in the State Department and the CIA, he's an opportunist, a shameless self-promoter and an embezzler. He opened a bank in Jordan that grew into the country's second largest, then was expropriated by the Jordanian government in the late '80s amid charges of fraud. Chalabi was convicted in absentia by a Jordanian military...