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Certainty is a casualty of war too. You can believe the whole enterprise was wrong from the start and still wonder if it is also wrong to leave--just as you can see it as a worthy, but now lost, cause. Some former war supporters, looking for exoneration, conclude that the Iraqis don't deserve our continued sacrifice. Some opponents, looking to assign the blame, say Iraqis don't deserve abandonment either, now that we've broken their country. After four years, it is hard to find anyone confident about where duty lies--unless you look in the Oval Office...
...pretty much everybody without a Ph.D.--there may be no better subject than young Henry. He was a rock star in a glittering, perilous age, an intellectually curious, athletic charmer who became a uxoricidal, paranoid turkey-leg chomper, pursuing a male heir through six wives. It's a wonder it took the entertainment industry so long to fully exploit him--and the other Tudors too--since the period was one of the most scandal plagued in British history. The Diana-Charles divorce had nothing on the split from Rome. "It was a sexy time. It was a dangerous time...
...Uyana is near some of the richest architectural treasures in the world. Just up the road is Sigiriya, the extraordinary rock fortress built in the 5th century, and widely hailed as the eighth wonder of the world. The ruined capitals of Anuradhapura, founded in the 4th century B.C., and 900-year-old Polonnaruwa are a shortish drive away, and so are the cave temples at Dambulla, which date from the 1st century B.C. They're so amazing - and so amazingly well preserved - that you could stay in a hut and be happy. But how much better to return, after...
...teams that finished in the top division look like prime title contenders, though each school has its own share of flaws. Fourth-place Columbia brings back its starting five and rising-sophomore Patrick Foley, but the Lions’ 7-7 record in league play last year makes one wonder if the team either has a knack for underachieving, or if it simply isn’t that good...
However, as I think about the ways in which Facebook has revolutionized the college experience, I can’t help but wonder if this toddler-aged creation is a modern-day version of Frankenstein’s monster. Mary Shelley’s cautionary tale about scientific experimentation gone awry may appear to be incompatible with Zuckerberg’s baby, but I’m realizing the real postmodern Prometheus is now a top-ten global website with repercussions far greater than drunken pokes...