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That's the charitable explanation. The more disturbing one is curiosity, fatalism, even, at some level, a measure of acceptance. We need to face our darkest possibilities. And yet, looking at Jericho's ratings, I have to wonder: Do I want America to be this comfortable with the apocalypse? In Jericho's yet-unseen outside world, millions of people in cities like mine could be incinerated, starving or in anarchy. But in at least one small town, life goes on, to a pop sound track, without us--without, in fact, much time or verbiage spent mourning us. Sitting in sight...
There’s something wonderfully full-circle about it: O’Hagan, Pizzotti, Witt, Pizzotti, O’Hagan.That’s the list of starting quarterbacks for No. 23 Harvard’s last seven games, and the announced starter for this coming Saturday’s clash at Dartmouth. With so much turnover under center, it’s a wonder that there haven’t been more turnovers, and that the Crimson has barely faltered in running up a 6-1 record in those seven games. The most memorable of those was last...
...devising an environmental platform based on water policy, rural land care and alternative energy sources. Howard has traveled widely in the bush. Farmers are one of his touchstones, and more measures to help them are expected this week. But when Howard talks about "drought-proofing" the country, you wonder: Has the Prime Minister absorbed the lessons that farmers?at the harvester, in the shed or at the kitchen table-have finally mastered about a dry nation? Or is he just planning to rain down more money...
Uncompromising, Anna was truthful to both sides. She wrote about under-armed and underfed Russian conscripts and about ailing Chechen civilians. She wrote about Chechens terrorizing Russian populations and Russian torture camps for irregular guerrilla fighters. No wonder passionate fan mail vied with vivid death threats in her letterbox...
Harvard speaks of preparing its students for a global society but doesn’t prioritize service. No wonder it admits the kinds of students it does, with an educational philosophy so preoccupied with shameless egoism...