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...cross the river I always feel like I’m the pathetic one who has nothing better to do with her time than go to a game. Until recently, I could not have been more on target. Except for a small group of regulars, Harvard students are absent from the stands. Instead, alumni crowd the grassy parking lot behind the football stadium with shrimp cocktails and wine; they are the most significant contributors to the scattered presence in and around the stadium. Are my peers and I waiting for a six-digit salary to bribe us into giving...
...City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, the man with the Midas touch, but even that wasn't enough to beat back McGreevey's aggressive campaign to paint Schundler as a reactionary whose views on abortion and gun control were utterly out of sync with those of the general public. McGreevey was absent from the campaign trail for the last couple of days before the election; his wife is in the hospital with pregnancy complications...
...unrepresentative of mainstream Islam—there is a dearth of institutional voices condemning the fallacies of fanaticism. And yet such condemnations are precisely what is needed. The principled Muslim leaders of the West can do nothing to sway public opinion in Kabul or Karachi, Khartoum or Cairo. Absent a coordinated, concerted and continuous effort on the part of the Middle East’s clerics and political leaders to explicitly condemn terrorism in all its forms as fundamentally incompatible with the teachings of the Prophet, terrorists will continue to rise from Middle Eastern soil like a cloud of locusts...
...last. The premier monster in Monsters, Inc. is not a hairless green ogre, however, but the esteemed James P. Sullivan, nicknamed “Sulley” (John Goodman)—a genial hulk with long blue fur and purple spots, always accompanied by his loyal but absent-minded Scare Assistant, Mike Wakowski (Billy Crystal), who resembles a one-eyed green pea. Both work for Monsters, Incorporated—an energy plant in the well-run township of Monstropolis, managed by a certain Henry J. Waternoose (James Coburn), who scuttles around on his many legs lamenting the energy crisis...
...facility in midtown Manhattan be closed for thorough cleaning. Environmental tests revealed anthrax spores on four of the center?s sorting machines. While postal officials are insisting Manhattan mail delivery will continue on a normal schedule, as many as 30 percent of the central facility?s workers have been absent from work in recent days, a five-fold increase from usual rates. Postal workers in Florida have filed a similar suit, claiming authorities did not respond quickly enough to postal workers' risk of contracting anthrax...