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...biggest trouble, however, is that the U.S. is obliged to beam conflicting messages to different audiences: Saddam, America's allies and its own public. Saddam, in Washington's analysis, is a paranoid thug to whom force is everything. To him the message can only be that he must pull out of Kuwait because the only alternative is the destruction of his power and perhaps his life. But the allies are reluctant to see the Middle East go up in flames, and so are the Americans whose sons, husbands and brothers -- or daughters, wives and sisters -- might be killed. The message...
...Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten climbed to the highest reaches of the best-seller list. Nine months later, the sequel was born. It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It followed the leader straight to the top. Both books still beam down on a world they analyze and celebrate. The author has not only remained popular with readers; he is also in demand on television and in concert halls. Last February he conducted the Minneapolis Chamber Symphony in the last movement of Beethoven's Ninth -- no mean accomplishment for a man who could not read...
...consider him an artist in the way he brings down mammoth firs to fall side by side, within inches of one another. With a 20-lb. saw hoisted to his shoulder and an ax in hand, he walks on logs with the grace of a gymnast on the high beam. But standing atop the trunk that was a 200-year-old tree, he can still share in the forest's loss. "It doesn't take long," he says. "To think it's been growing for 200 years or better, and then it's down in a minute and a half...
...miles) to rule out false signals from, say, local earthquakes. Each L-shaped installation will consist of two pipes 4 km (2.5 miles) long, set at right angles to each other and emptied of air. A laser, placed at the intersection of the pipes, will emit a beam that is split into two parts, each of which will bounce back and forth between suspended weights and finally return to the intersection. There the beams will be recombined, and a detector will examine them for slight distortions that will reveal whether movements of the weights have forced one light beam...
Harvard administrators beam with pride as they tout the huge diversity of the student body. Yet at Commencement--the culmination of students' Harvard experiences--the University is entirely inconsiderate and disrespectful of that diversity. Every year, Harvard organizes a Commencement celebration worthy of the days when only the wealthiest members of society could attend...