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...boss and believes that women are "more thoughtful, maybe even a little smarter, than most men." But his woman's world is becoming hostile territory: he has grown alienated from his students, has just lost a powerful chair position to a woman (Marcia Gay Harden), and is flailing to defend teaching the works of "dead white guys...
...despite his relative puniness (the 76ers generously list him at 6 ft., 165 lbs.) After Iverson torched the Lakers for 48 points in the first game of this year's NBA finals, dealing L.A. their only playoff loss, Laker Robert Horry wondered aloud just how anyone was supposed to defend the little guy: "He can get the jumper anytime he wants, so all you can do is hope he's not hitting it. If he drives, you have to hope the help comes quick enough. There's a lot of hope involved...
...Thursday, Congress passed a resolution that “in response to the terrorist attacks... U.S. citizens should join together to defend and honor the Nation and its symbols of strength” and that people are “encouraged to display the flag...to remember those individuals who have been lost and to show the solidarity, resolve and strength of the nation...
...information about the membership and operations of terrorist organizations. Now that the nation has been shown to be vulnerable to terrorist attack on such a catastrophic scale, other groups may be waiting to carry out their own attacks, possibly with chemical, biological or other weapons that are difficult to defend against without an effective intelligence system...
...appear to replace them, and the citizens of peaceful countries would feel no more secure. As so many world leaders have noted, this week’s attack was not merely an act of aggression against the United States, but against the free world. Once again, the duty to defend these freedoms has fallen squarely on our shoulders...