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...that it has increased homeland-security funds significantly. That's true, sort of: there are all those uniformed people at airports; there are larger stocks of vaccines and antibiotics. More money has gone to border patrol and - just recently - to port security. But there's an element of three-card monte here: money slops from pot to pot, and the totals remain unchanged. On the ground, the situation is largely unchanged too. Nicholas Scoppetta, the New York City fire commissioner, says the Federal Government replaced all 91 fire trucks destroyed on Sept. 11, but it hasn't helped very much...
Inaugurated at the beginning of the term, the service is open to veterans and non-veterans alike, although it is run entirely by the University Chapter of the American Veterans Committee. It is designed to facilitate the buying and selling of second-hand texts by means of a card catalogue listing volumes offered for sale by students who no longer need them...
IMAGE AND EMPIRE: PICTURING INDIA DURING THE COLONIAL ERA. See inset story. Through May 25. Hours: Mondays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sundays, 1 to 5 p.m. $6.50, $5 students/seniors, free to Harvard ID holders, Cambridge Public Library card holders and to people under 18. Group rates available. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway...
...Happy study card day” doesn’t have quite the same ring, somehow, as “Happy New Year.” Neither does today’s less-august event occasion the kisses, toasts and choruses of “Auld Lang Syne” that ushered in 2003. But today is a holiday of sorts—one marked by a memo from the registrar and a highlighted page in your dayplanner—and in the spirit of the day I offer my best wishes and this story...
...Powell has warned against expecting any "smoking gun" evidence from his presentation. He may, of course, be diminishing expectations ahead of some unforeseen trump card. But taken at his word, he could sway the Council debate even without a smoking gun. Powell is on strongest ground where he is able to show that Iraq is actively - rather than simply by omission - failing to comply with the letter and spirit of Resolution 1441. Chief inspector Dr. Hans Blix has chastised the Iraqis for their "passive cooperation," insisting Baghdad had evaded some of the key challenges set out by the inspectors such...