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...found myself reading up on the Caroline after a trip to London last week. In Britain commentators and policy makers are agog about a new U.S. doctrine, unveiled by President George W. Bush in a commencement address early this month at West Point. Surveying the post-Sept. 11 world, Bush said that "if we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long ... We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans and confront the worst threats before they emerge." The speech, wrote Peter Riddell, a sober columnist for the London Times, "signaled the most...
...course, not every foreign service will be quickly adopted at home. Americans who attended the 1998 World Cup in France came back agog with tales of clean, reliable, high-speed trains that whisked them between cities. Will Amtrak soon offer such a system? Don't hold your breath. But the impact of foreign travel on American products shouldn't be underestimated. In the past few years, countless tourists to Europe and Japan have been impressed by local cell phones that don't lose connections when you turn a corner and that have all sorts of services that are denied Americans...
...Gospel of Luke that describes Jesus' childhood visit to Jerusalem. Though he had been there before--Luke says his family was visiting "as usual" for Passover--the 12-year-old from Nazareth, 60 miles to the north, must still have been agog walking south down the grand new Roman street toward the Temple's lower entrance. A stretch of that road is visible today, just below the Western Wall, majestically wide but piled high on one side with huge blocks of stone that rained from above during one of the city's many destructions...
Last week, the University revealed its proposal for a new building on Mt. Auburn St. that will house the main offices of the Harvard University libraries. However, when we look at the model presented by award-winning Viennese architect Hans Hollein, all we can do is stare, agog and open-mouthed, with one burning question in mind...
...psychiatrists have revised their technique for delivering the electricity in the past generation so that less power is needed and, consequently, fewer side effects result. For his part, Hartmann says he has often gone to work around noon after morning electroshock sessions. "The people in the office are just agog that you can add two and two, that you're not drooling," he says. "But my concentration was actually improved, and I felt so much better." Hartmann says the memory problems he has experienced have been minor--getting confused about what he ordered from the hospital menu, for instance...