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...said it is the role of the U.S. to ensure that more countries benefit from an open and interdependent world. Clinton said America must work to spread democracy, broaden economic benefits, reduce global poverty and generally maintain a higher level of consciousness of the problems and concerns of others, especially in Muslim countries...
...things fear of the unspecified does is to broaden and shrink the context of one's life simultaneously. Because of Sept. 11, one is made jarringly aware of living in the wider world, and one's private vanities are properly discarded. At the same time, because that wider world means menace, one is also spooked into blanket-over-the-head thinking. Should I sit in a crowd at a ball game? Send the kids to school? Go down to the kitchen...
...seems a concession to those who sought to change our way of life, as well as an insult to those theatergoers, especially in New York, who are not reactionaries and will soon again be capable of appreciating theater that challenges what we think we know and asks us to broaden what we’re willing to accept...
However, the strengths of the Freshman Seminar program also illuminate many of the weaknesses of another aspect of Harvard education: the Core curriculum. Although the administration seeks to broaden students’ perspectives through the Core, it has instead limited the undergraduate learning experience with restricted offerings and prohibitively large class sizes. We celebrate the intensity of learning in the Freshman Seminars for the same reason that we balk at the watered-down courses offered in the Core. Moreover, the increased teaching demands on professors imposed by the expanded Freshman Seminar program may lead to even fewer Core offerings...
...evidence is causing officials to broaden their investigative and security efforts to encompass not only the carry-on bag screening system but the entire aviation security apparatus at US airports. The new evidence raises the worrisome possibility that the hijackers may have had accomplices deep within the 'secure' areas of airports - that may include the shops and restaurants in the terminal behind the metal detectors, or amongst the thousands of people who work in catering, fueling or cleaning aircraft; or anyone who might have access to the airplane before takeoff...