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President George W. Bush has repeatedly encouraged America to return to work and create a sense of “normalcy,” but to do so without forgetting the dire consequences of last Tuesday’s terrorist attacks. Tealuxe, in the friendly confines of Harvard Square, has taken the president’s message in stride and tomorrow will be providing all its teas, hot or cold, free of charge. Instead of asking customers to pay for the beverages, they suggest that donations be left for the families of the rescue workers who perished in the collapse...
...simply punishing those responsible for the attacks would send a strong, necessary message. There is no question that what those terrorists did was completely inexcusable under any circumstances. There is a dire need to wipe out terrorism and to restore our faith in our world and our country...
Although traditional Cambridge would abhor the notion of abolishing public schools, Condit says that the dire state of Cambridge’s schools—among the state’s best-funded and lowest-scoring—will turn Cambridge towards libertarianism...
...prospect of becoming a longterm commitment. After almost six years in Bosnia and more than two in Kosovo, NATO is now present in force in a third remnant of ex-Yugoslavia, one where the firing is live and the very real consequences of a potential escalation would be dire for the entire region. Yet NATO insists that this action is different: it is not a peacekeeping mission, let alone a peacemaking one. The troops, most of them British, come at the invitation of the Macedonian government for a specific and limited task of collecting as many of the N.L.A...
...other hand, says Larson, the AFL-CIO report does point to certain dire trends that should not (and cannot) be dismissed out of hand. First, the study indicates there?s a 10 percent increase in perception among employees that employers have too much power. "People are really just learning how vulnerable workers are under current employment law," Larson says. "Interestingly for the AFL-CIO, one of the reasons union membership has declined so dramatically is that the union representatives were unable to communicate that vulnerability, and workers saw no reason to invest in unions...