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...turns corrosive. If you can laugh at anything that smacks of pretension—and, oh, we can—idealism becomes an early casualty. The solution is not to embrace personal ambition, which remains gauche, but instead to transfer it to a cause. We all have, or had, boundless ambition; that is how most of us got to Harvard, after all. Instead of burying it, we ought to be able to apply it elsewhere. Apathy is fairly cool, as evidenced by James Dean—but it is action that lasts...
...teenager to function. Yet the 10 boys and eight girls who pour into the first-period Advanced Placement (AP) Calculus class at McNair Academic High School in Jersey City, N.J., seem remarkably alert. Maybe it's the influence of Victorina Wasmuth, their peppy, diminutive math teacher, who exudes a boundless enthusiasm as she introduces a lesson on Rolle's theorem and the extreme-value theorem, which, she explains, are key underpinnings of calculus. Wasmuth tosses out problems for her students to solve and then roves the room, examining their work. "You're all very smart!" she exclaims...
Blackwill's challenge now is to help the new government gain legitimacy and prepare the country for elections, currently scheduled for early 2005. By then, though, he hopes to have moved on. A senior Republican close to him says Blackwill's ambition is "boundless," and some Administration insiders say he could become National Security Adviser if Bush wins re-election and Rice decides to leave her post. But all of that may hinge on whether Blackwill can get Iraq safely through November...
Jens Harder's "Leviathan" (NBM/Comics Lit; 144pp) has an international flavor. Created by a German artist and released on both sides of the Atlantic, it has been written in the boundless language of wordless comix, except for the chapter headings that appear in four different languages. It features the creature of the title, a giant sperm whale, as it swims through disparate oceans, encountering man and beast through the ages. Foregoing a traditional story, it reads like Neptune's dream after a night of bad sushi. Harder depicts the whale as a fearsome monster, a silent behemoth that rules...
...cheap drugs to combat HIV and AIDS is made available to Africa. We knew that Arbour would represent the virtues we hold dearest: fairness, integrity, a respect for diversity, a belief in equality and, above all else, respect for the individual. She did just that, with exemplary dedication and boundless energy, during her tenure at the court in the Hague. I don't doubt for a moment that she will do so again, and this time on a global scale, in her new assignment. --By PAUL MARTIN, Prime Minister of Canada