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...little overexposed, her smiles are undifferentiated bright crescents. On the telephone, after the string of foreign rings have elapsed, our absent roommate tells us she’ll be ready to come back next September, that she’ll appreciate Harvard more then. There is some comfort in knowing that the Harvard she’ll return to in September as a senior is nearly indistinguishable from the one she came to in the September of her freshman year. Although her absence has changed our Harvard, it hasn’t changed Harvard. And ultimately, this...

Author: By Phoebe Kosman, BY THE YARD | Title: Abroad Thoughts, From Home | 2/9/2004 | See Source »

...originating and approving the 45-minute claim and believed it to be true. Hutton condemned the BBC's circle-the-wagons response after the government blasted Gilligan's story. The BBC's chairman, its director-general and Gilligan resigned, though they took shots at Hutton's report and comfort from a wide variety of commentators who called it a whitewash. The acting BBC management announced a review of editorial controls and tried to calm employees who staged protest strikes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain's WMD inquiry: Did Blair Get Off Too Lightly? | 2/9/2004 | See Source »

Around 8 a.m., Schmidt trades the comfort of the warm gym for the cold of the parking lot, pulling aside voters as they leave the polls to identify who supports Dean...

Author: By Jessica R. Rubin-wills and Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Students Take Primary Role in N.H. | 2/4/2004 | See Source »

Kerry was the clear beneficiary of all Dean's bad press. In New Hampshire, familiarity with Kerry once bred indifference, if not contempt. Suddenly, it brought comfort. Even when Kerry was doing badly, says Gephardt campaign manager Steve Murphy, "he always had great favorability ratings. They were always better than Dean's. He just never really connected until the end. He shed some aloofness, and he started answering questions, and he started to listen. He just got better." His height and bearing and senatorial stature make it easy to imagine him wearing White House cufflinks on his Turnbull & Asser shirts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '04: What Becomes A President Most? | 2/2/2004 | See Source »

...course, he's from Minnesota. Whatever your comfort zone, don't forget that there is always an alternative: just go indoors to exercise at a mall, at a gym or in your basement. Remember, spring is only nine weeks away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Winter Games | 1/26/2004 | See Source »

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