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Roberts, now a senior assistant dean and computer science professor at Stanford, says the Quad was culturally distinct from the rest of Harvard, housing more public school graduates, academics and feminists—as well as offering greater interaction between first-years and upperclass students due to their status as four-year Houses. He says that opposition to the plan on the Quad was nearly unanimous...
...easy - and is often presumptuous - to give advice to those who live in the shadow of the terrorist's bomb. Yet before policymakers in the West decide that India deserves unstinting support, it is important to understand that there are different kinds of terrorism and that combatting them requires distinct strategies...
...wait and worry. It was a kind of warning-signal whiplash, and it was exhausting. The fresh round of alerts began when Vice President Dick Cheney called the prospect of another major attack on the U.S. "very, very real" and suggested that suicide bombings are also a distinct possibility. Three other top Administration officials quickly echoed the fatalistic mantra. Their predictions weren't altogether new, but they contained hotter adjectives than Americans were used to. Before, new attacks were likely; now they were "inevitable." All the while, the FBI dispensed a steady stream of all-terrain warnings--about potential attacks...
...pool in "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People" (Da Capo; July 4). Kirkus enjoys the dish. "Kiss-and-tell memoir of Young's ill-fated stint as contributing editor at Vanity Fair magazine... This skewering of celebrity worship at the nation's leading 'upscale supermarket tabloid' bears a distinct resemblance to shooting fish in a barrel; nonetheless, Young's language is energetic and engaging, making one wish (along with his father, apparently) that he'd find a worthier subject. Enjoyably bitchy specifics of Cond? Nast culture, buried beneath tedious social analysis and self-deprecation...
Addressing concerns that Lands' End--a much smaller but well-established retailer known for quality, value and outstanding service--would be swallowed up by the big Sears chain, Lacy emphasized that Lands' End would remain a distinct brand and continue operating independently under current CEO David Dyer. "We want Lands' End to be Lands' End," Lacy says. The plan is to feature Lands' End clothes on sears.com but not vice versa. Dyer will assume responsibility for all direct-to-customer operations, including sears.com...