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...surrounded us. She was mid-sentence and stopped talking. It was a moment like I hadn't felt before - or since. There was the presence of something else that was spiritual around us. It lasted 30 seconds, maybe a minute, and then it just kind of receded like a wave and was gone. This book really came from that moment, feeling that presence. It was an attempt to find out whether I was crazy...
...that she means all those Pakistanis who do not belong to her class and who have as much to do with the Taliban as she does, which is to say nothing at all. But her sweeping wave inadvertently encompasses a part of Pakistan she has failed to address - the Swat valley, where the army has embarked on a campaign to rout out Islamic insurgents who threaten to destroy the Pakistan Haye knows and cherishes. (See pictures of Pakistan beneath the surface...
...first wave of budget reductions announced across the Faculty of Arts and Sciences this week has unnerved professors worried about the next round of cost-cutting measures—even as this round has left faculty members largely unscathed...
...news article "Wary Professors Eye Next Wave of Cutbacks" incorrectly implied that Professor Steven R. Levitsky was being completely serious in his remarks about how students should respond to the cutbacks. In fact, he says the remarks were meant in jest, and the text online has been changed to reflect that sentiment...
...fact is, the temperature is rising in our house, and not everyone is responsible for the heat wave to the same degree. Yet everyone must be involved in the solution. Furthermore, we cannot simply market-eer our way out of the maelstrom...