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Sometimes it's striking how strength begets greater strength. One by one, George W. Bush is clearing away the obstacles to war, at home and overseas. His public campaign to make Saddam Hussein disarm or disappear is barely a month old, but already Bush has thrown war-averse Democrats on the defensive. He flew to New York City and smacked down the U.N. with his call to wake up or risk irrelevancy. And last week he unveiled his new national-security strategy, a long-range plan for the U.S. overseas, which argues that the strongest nation in the world...
...people by voiding an individual law in a specific case undermines the democratic nature of the American legal system. If the people perceive the law as arbitrarily determined by a 12-member panel lacking any accountability to the citizenry at large, popular confidence in a uniform legal code will disappear...
Linda Keltner, executive secretary at BU’s Student Activities Office, said that, like Harvard, the university approves 20 to 30 new groups per semester. Many groups, she says, especially special interest groups with a narrow focus, tend to disappear after their founders graduate...
Current president Sarah Calkins ’04 says the group is continuing to grow and expects that it won’t disappear anytime soon...
...while Illingworth says “it’s hard to tell” whether many groups disappear after their founders graduate, he maintains, like Smith, that the benefits of Harvard’s 250 student groups outweigh the costs...