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...into long lines of young men walking on the road. "There is no doubt these are the Republican Guard we didn't come up against yesterday. They all have military haircuts," Marine Lieut. Colonel Bryan McCoy told a TIME correspondent that day. After U.S. forces began arresting men wearing combat boots, deserters tended to sport bare feet or cheap new sandals...
...pretty good job, when along comes an author explaining how, with a bit more effort, little Jake can be turned into Leonard Bernstein. Or Donald Trump. Or both. What these books presume is that parenting is a science, when in fact it falls somewhere between an art and a combat zone. What they never take into account is the frazzled woman who is leading a double life--trying to be a good mother while having to pretend at work that she doesn't have kids at all. Here, for those heroically divided souls, I present the Mother's Alphabet...
...administrators have to figure out not only how to combat alcohol abuse but also how to fix a growing p.r. problem. A couple of months after the ranking was announced, a porn company decided that Indiana's party atmosphere made it the perfect place to shoot Shane's World No. 32: Campus Invasion. (Students were filmed getting busy with porn stars in a dorm and frat house.) A month later, the Girls Gone Wild crew danced into town to shoot video of topless I.U. women. "It's a horrendous set of actions that all started with the Princeton Review," says...
...concerns mirror those that have preoccupied universities nationwide, including Harvard—concerns that drive to the heart of what it means to be a research institution in a nation working to combat homeland-security threats...
...December 2002, the Bush Administration issued its National Strategy to Combat Weapons of Mass Destruction. This document reiterated a line that had been used on other occasions over the previous year by President Bush: “We will not permit the world’s most dangerous regimes and terrorists to threaten us with the world’s most destructive weapons.” This strong language (“We will not permit…”) is meant to signal Washington’s determination to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction?...