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But for all her cordiality, Rice was a critic of the Clinton Administration's policies and habits. She had said as much, in the kind of language that one of Oscar Wilde's more waspish characters might have used. In a famous 2000 article in Foreign Affairs, she insisted that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Condi The Problem? | 4/5/2004 | See Source »

To its credit, Wyoming, the least populous state in the U.S., does not feel like an ideal place for a terrorist attack. The 493,800 people who live here have a well-deserved affection for the state's yawning prairie land, framed by mountains and speckled with elk, antelope and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Safe Are We?: How We Got Homeland Security Wrong | 3/29/2004 | See Source »

Despite Thurston’s deep affection for his humble alma mater, he does have a bone to pick with America. “There is room for violence in this country,” he sums up, “and it should be directed towards Bill O?...

Author: By Adam C. Estes, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Crying’ Over Modern America | 3/12/2004 | See Source »

The past few evenings have found me wending through the Radcliffe Quad and up Garden Street. I do not live in the Quad, and have always, in the past, cast a pitying eye on the Quadlings who have insisted upon a Quad-River rivalry—feeling that the River?...

Author: By Phoebe Kosman, | Title: Heading for Hilles | 3/8/2004 | See Source »

Harvard makes a business of expelling the inefficient, the dated, the impractical. The endowment is a notable beneficiary of this efficiency-mindedness; so too is the student body, admitted on the strength of its ambition, hustled out on leaves of absence when their grades dip. There is nothing really wrong...

Author: By Phoebe Kosman, | Title: Heading for Hilles | 3/8/2004 | See Source »

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