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Thus started the Summers Tennis Watch. And with each passing week, tension mounted. The Harvard community held its collective breath, waiting to see if Larry Summers and FM’s Ben Mathis-Lilley, Ben Wasserstein and Kenyon Weaver would meet on the court. The odds didn’t look good. Our first proposal to Summers’ office, sent almost a year ago, had received a polite but firm “no.” Our second proposal, sent in the fall, had received a polite but firm complete lack of response. Hoping to turn...
Symptoms of SARS include a sudden onset of high fever, dry cough and shortness of breath, according...
...disease triggers flulike symptoms--high fever, coughing, shortness of breath--but because it hasn't been responding to either antibiotics or antivirals, doctors can't immediately tell what causes it. For now they are calling it SARS--for Severe Acute Respiratory syndrome. Scientists speculate that it may be a bacterium or a virus that has mutated into a new, more virulent form...
...yield some benign results. And on the rarest occasions--the first Gulf War; Afghanistan--there may even be enough consensus for a resolution supporting the use of force. Ultimately, the U.N. may be the place to litigate global problems like environmental depredation and AIDS. But don't hold your breath. For now, the strongest argument for the U.N.'s continued existence is that it can do the things Americans don't like to do. The division of labor is obvious; indeed, it was a staple of George W. Bush's 2000 presidential campaign--Americans, he said, should be peacemakers...
...speech with his right hand. At one point near the end of his speech he took the thick sheaf of papers that contained the address and clapped them down on the podium, using both hands. There were, however, brief moments when he appeared at least slightly out of breath...