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Harvard will aim to play a complete game from the opening whistle against Cornell, as it did in its 5-0 home victory over the Big Red last season...
...WORLD No Quick Fix As American and British forces continued a military buildup around Afghanistan, the war against terrorism broadened across several fronts - from high finance and diplomacy to the shadowy world of espionage and psychological warfare. The immediate aim was to pinpoint the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden, Washington's prime suspect in the Sept. 11 attacks. His presumed protectors, Afghanistan's Taliban rulers, played for time by issuing a clerical edict urging the al-Qaeda leader to flee. But their refusal to hand him over, despite last-minute representations by Pakistan, made stronger international action all but inevitable...
...government tutorial grading standards should not be considered an inconvenience. All the students in the class will be graded against the same scale and will have equal opportunities to impress their teaching fellows. The central aim of an education should be to facilitate learning; awarding high grades for mediocre performance does not meet this goal. Mansfield is using his class as an example that other professors would do well to follow, rather than to ignore...
...artists and entertainment companies aim to be tasteful, the danger is that relevant work will suffer too. In the 1,213-station Clear Channel Communications radio network, an internal e-mail circulated last week listing more than 150 songs deemed possibly too sensitive to be played during this period, among them Peter, Paul and Mary's Leaving on a Jet Plane. (Clear Channel contends the list was unofficial and did not ban any songs outright.) USA Network canceled an airing of the 1998 movie The Siege, a serious look at anti-Arab bigotry and paranoia after terrorist attacks...
...hijackers the investigation has been most successful in profiling. Before journeying to Florida, Atta studied for several years at Germany's Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg and shared an apartment with Al-Shehhi. According to German chief prosecutor Kay Nehm, they were linked with a group formed with the "aim of carrying out serious crimes, together with other Islamic extremist groups abroad, to attack the U.S. in a spectacular way through the destruction of symbolic buildings...