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...manner and the forward-thinking positions he has taken on issues from foreign policy to the environment. They say he can fill the party's gaping need for someone who can speak cogently on national security. Kerry's credential as a decorated Vietnam veteran not only makes a useful contrast to President Bush but also adds some ballast to the surefire applause line he drops into every speech about Iraq: "The United States should never go to war because we want to; the United States should go to war because we have...
...contrast, TIME estimates that 100 million wage earners would profit from elimination of the double tax on Social Security and Medicare. And some 90% of those people take home less than $100,000 a year. People like Michael Kasprzak and Betty Williams of Seattle...
...think like a laptop owner. Your precious machine, filled with irreplaceable data, is less safe than ever. In 2001 there were 591,000 laptops reported stolen--up 53% from the previous year (desktop computer thefts, by contrast, are falling). Luckily, there are precautions you can take, from better locks to laptop insurance. And if the unthinkable happens, there are even ways to track your lost laptop on the Internet...
...aware that whilst the opinions below may not be reflective of Oxford student opinion as a whole, or the facts as you know them at Harvard, it would hardly be in the spirit of contrast for me to write anything tainted by research. So here, instead, are a sprinkling of the general bigotries which we hold about American college life...
Work. I hear that you are assessed via a Grade Point Average. This sounds like tyranny—you must have to, like, do work all the time. We, in contrast, are only assessed in eight exams at the end of our final year, which has the obvious benefit of meaning that no one does any work until several months before they graduate, and can waste their time writing columns commenting on?...