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...semester I was on hiatus over at the other Cambridge, the one where pants are referred to as trousers and if you ever do comment on someone’s pants you either know that person very well or have just committed a blundering faux pas. Most people were curious about Harvard, or as they called it, “McCambridge,” and wanted to know how successful we’ve been in exporting a Cambridge education. Insults aside (and we were taught to expect them, cautioned by the study abroad program sponsors that the English were...

Author: By Sue Meng, | Title: A Tale of Two Cambridges | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

...obligations. But there will be a subtext. Bush's bottom line, says a senior Administration official, will be "if [the U.N] doesn't do something, we will." Diplomacy, where what is said in public is merely a useful guide to private conviction, has a curious logic. In essence, Washington believes it is more likely to get a multilateral solution on Iraq if it appears ready to take action unilaterally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: Not as lonely as he looks | 9/16/2002 | See Source »

...connection between Saddam and Osama bin Laden, or is it enough that since that day, Americans have the dark imagination to see what an enemy can do to destroy us? With each new speech, each meeting with congressional leaders, each Op-Ed salvo, the Administration is speaking to a curious and conflicted public. Is this war really necessary? Do we have to fight it now? Will we have to fight it alone? And will starting a war have consequences like more terrorist attacks at home and abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making His Case | 9/16/2002 | See Source »

Leading a pack of bargain hunters and curious passersby on a tour through the bowels of Kirkland, Eddleston peddled oak coat racks, metal tables and muck-marked rugs students had donated for the auction...

Author: By Maria S. Pedroza, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kirkland’s Bowels A Treasure Trove | 9/16/2002 | See Source »

...mighty shake that just about knocks one of Genelle's colleagues out of his chair. They don't realize it, of course, but it's American Airlines Flight 11 puncturing their building upstairs, across floors 94 to 98. "What the hell?" says Genelle. She's not scared yet, just curious, so she goes to the window. Seeing a snowstorm of papers in the air, she stands in awe and confusion, motionless. Now people are saying a plane has hit the building. "We have to leave," she hears someone urge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Survivor: A Miracle's Cost | 9/9/2002 | See Source »

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