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Mahmud, my Iraqi colleague who fled Amariyah, has sent his wife and four kids to Amman. Whether they will return when schools reopen will depend on the security situation. Mahmud is not optimistic. "I should have made them pack winter clothes," he says...
...annoying the heck out of the rest of us.Grace Tiao ’08, a Crimson editorial editor, is a joint English and American literature and language and history and science concentrator in Currier House. She wrote this piece while shivering madly in the Argentine winter, on the balcony of her apartment in a bikini...
...Getting to play with a grownup, or just listen in on their porch conversations, teaches children more about becoming one. Summer is a stage, where we rehearse for the dramas that winter brings. Nothing is for keeps; you can mess up your lines, try a new costume, improvise. Embarrassment evaporates faster in this heat, you live in the moment, don't hold grudges, and so it's easier to take risks, and not take yourself seriously...
...parents we pay so much attention to their schools, their scores, their teachers. How is it that two months of play seems to shape their character and reflexes more than a whole winter's worth of lessons? When they are melted in the high heat of summer freedom, they find out just how flexible they can be, how bold, how resourceful; so that when the air cools and school resumes they swagger back into their orderly lines, with a secret, and another mark on the wall...
...Other times the problem isn't how he says things, but what he says. Biden is known for his occasionally bizarre questioning of witnesses at hearings, most notably the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito last winter. Biden riffed about his dislike of Princeton, Alito's alma mater, one day, then donned a Princeton cap the next day and said he was okay with the school. More recently, on a trip to New Hampshire last month, he noted "you cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent," while attempting...