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Harvard goes on the road again for a double-dip with Penn and Princeton this coming weekend...
...least the spectators are giving Salt Lake City an unqualified vote of confidence. After an initial dip following Sept. 11, daily ticket sales have risen to an average of $200,000 a day in January; sales have already smashed the record set in Nagano. If Team USA gets the job done here, these Games will become the blue-print for securing high-profile events in a post-World Trade Center world. "This has become a training ground for national security," Utah's Republican Senator Orrin Hatch says proudly. "They're writing the rules here." Let's hope they work. Unlike...
...underlying purposes of this operation may go beyond the fate of Abu Sayyaf. Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has shrewdly used the terrorism threat to dip into Washington's honey jar, coming away with $100 million in military aid and substantial additions to her depleted arsenal. Her country has largely been cut off from military assistance since Manila kicked the U.S. out of its two major South Asian bases in 1991. The Bush Administration was eager to regain a military foothold there. Last November, when Arroyo visited Washington, the President offered to send U.S. combat troops to join...
...borrowing from state banks to cover their losses, and either learn to compete or fail. To emerge from their predicament--they take people's good money as deposits but make bad loans--the banks must channel that money to productive entrepreneurs. The average tariff on all products will gradually dip below 10%, from 44% in 1991. Nontariff barriers like quotas and licensing will also ease; still harder to eliminate will be such thorns as impromptu road taxes and directed purchasing meant to support local businesses...
...Even though black clouds loom, there is time for a quick dip before the storm hits. The park's official line is that the only guaranteed safe places to swim are in the hotel swimming pools. But Kakadu's natural pools are far too enticing to be avoided just because it's croc breeding season. Rick leads us on a 3-km walk to nearby Gubara Falls and the still waters of a shady rain-forest pool. There's not a crocodile in sight, but there are enough croc-resembling logs floating downstream to spark the occasional frisson of primal...