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...Harvard student body is one that is undeniably unique. Composed of students driven by ambition and a will to succeed, we pour ourselves wholly into our individual pursuits—academic, extracurricular or athletic. At the same time, as evidenced by the increasing number of final clubs, fraternities and sororities on campus, we also crave social interaction. Unfortunately, while this campus provides more than adequate resources for working, it provides no real facilities for community...
...line of questioning when she started was most inspired by personal curiosity, she said, but now she is driven by a better understanding of the issues...
...Nearing the final stages of their plotting, they had become very careful. They kept to themselves and seem not to have even attended a mosque. Only occasionally would somebody notice them. One observer was Jim Woolard, owner of a World Gym in Delray Beach, Fla., who recalls Atta as "driven" on the weight machines (perhaps one reason that the folks back home would have trouble recognizing the newly beefy Atta in photos released after Sept...
Michael Elliott's column "How To Talk To Protesters" (Aug. 13) focuses on the pluses of corporations seeking accommodation with protest groups but neglects the minuses. Many radical protest groups don't want accommodation. They are driven by intense hatred of corporations, free enterprise and technology, and by a need to keep collecting money from corporations to fund more protests. Corporations should reject the idea of surrender to these extremists. Instead, they should tell the world some basic truths. Free enterprise and trade help millions get jobs. Animal research saves human lives. Chemicals eradicate pests that spread diseases. Biotechnology increases...
...struggle against terrorism, by contrast, is to some extent directed against people and groups who claim to be driven by faith. Theirs may be a distorted religiosity, but it is a powerfully felt one nonetheless. The appeals to reason that helped make communism quite literally unbelievable simply do not apply. The worst case is if the U.S. and its allies end up in a messy Vietnam-type debacle on the ground and in a new kind of cold war. As prosecuted by the eventual winners, the cold war was ultimately driven by the belief that freedom was a value worth...