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...colors that Hamad Alokzai noticed. The gaunt Afghan, with a beard like matted wool and gaudy silver rings on his fingers, had returned to Afghanistan from exile in Quetta, Pakistan, to check on his former comrades. On Thursday night he sat with his old Taliban commander under blankets in a pickup truck, safely tucked away in the hills outside Kandahar. "The bombs make a sound, then you see green lights falling through the sky," the commander told Alokzai. "The missiles have flashing yellow lights." That night, Alokzai counted 30 missiles striking targets around the city: "It was like Kandahar...
...sports a deliciously soft tan coat with stylish front pockets and contrasting trim ($15). She wears it here paired with a basic gray shirt from Marsh Landing ($5). For those days when you simply must frolic in the snow, Caitlin models a luxuriously warm, gray wool coat ($26) and button-down blue shirt ($9), complimented with matching blue gloves ($3) and a tasteful yellow scarf...
...Stefen yearned for blood. Schulyer wanted to hit someone with his bat. Mike trembled and wanted to cry. Acting on a tip that the swim team was involved, the H-12 boys used a freshmen swim roster along with a facebook to locate some suspects in Thayer. They donned wool hats, sunglasses, and baseball bats, setting out on an epic quest through the yard on a mission to locate their fridge. Busting though doors and into Thayer rooms that night, the H-12 boys acted out a twisted version of good cop/bad cop, adding the role of big-scary-Japanese...
...that has changed now. I’m a dyed-in-the-wool Midwestern girl, proudly requesting cans of “pop” and donning my t-shirt that reads, “Harvard: The Michigan of the East.” Even though I miss the bustle of Harvard Square (especially the constant crooning of “Not the Beatles” outside my window every Saturday morning), I love being home. It is slightly less exciting, to be sure, and the absence of public transportation can be frustrating. But there is a certain charm here...
...Jeffords is a dyed-in-the-wool Vermonter who clings fast to his state?s staunchly Yankee traditions and its conservative values. But conservatism, as we?ve learned this week, means something very different among the Green Mountains than it does in the Beltway. Up north, conservatives talk about the individual?s ascendancy over government, whereas in Washington you?re more likely to hear them talk about the government?s moral agenda...