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...League baseball season heats up with the weather during the 30 days of April, but this year—as always—its significance will boil down to the final weekend of the month.More than a week ago, long before Harvard dumped Brown from the Red Rolfe divisional race and assured itself a one-game edge against second-place Dartmouth, Crimson captain Morgan Brown felt free to speculate on the inevitability of now.“It always comes down to the last weekend,” he said then, before Harvard played the Bears, Boston College, or Rhode...
DESIGN TOUCHSTONE "We try to boil our designs down to be as simple as possible, with fewer parts and less material," King says. The company's Freedom chair, for example, has 132 parts. A comparable chair from the competition has 275. King is lobbying to bring to his industry the kind of regulation that exists in the food business. He would like to see chairs labeled with sustainability scores based on their content. Humanscale would fare well: about 62% of the material in its Freedom chair is recycled. That's not material that is recyclable (although it's that...
...Washington-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "They mix resentment and admiration, fear with respect, jealousy with the desire to emulate." So long as that volatile mixture constitutes a central, "brittle part of the national psyche," says Pei, there's always the possibility that these emotions will boil over...
...Sullivan's "three huge errors"-overconfidence, narcissism and underestimating the importance of culture-actually boil down to one: American arrogance. The rest of the world disagreed with plans to invade Iraq, but the Bush Administration thought the world was cowardly. The world, well aware of conditions in Northern Ireland, the Palestinian territories and Kashmir, anticipated chaos in Iraq, but the U.S. government thought it knew best. As that country falls apart, Sullivan needs to ask if Iraq will ever emulate South Africa, Romania or even the Philippines, each a place where democracy germinated because its seed was planted...
...thoughts of many Republicans and Democrats. His honesty deserves respect, but we sure wish that our President had spoken those words to us citizens, as well as to the world. Ray Ross Montrose, Colorado, U.S. Sullivan's "Three huge errors" - overconfidence, narcissism and underestimating the importance of culture - actually boil down to one: American arrogance. The rest of the world disagreed with plans to invade Iraq, but the Bush Administration thought the world was cowardly. The world, well aware of conditions in Northern Ireland, the Palestinian territories and Kashmir, anticipated chaos in Iraq, but the U.S. government thought it knew...