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That shortage hindered Radcliffe's ability to draw fellows from far-flung places...
...Many far-flung families have discovered a wonderful Web freebie: create-your-own family sites, where relatives equipped with passwords can post messages, share family anecdotes, keep track of birthdays, scan in snapshots--and see what the rest of their extended family has been up to. Valerie Juleson lives in Wilton, Conn. Her 12 adult children--11 foster kids and one biological child--are spread out all over the U.S. and Europe, and her two grandchildren live in Florida. She keeps up with everyone through a site created on myfamily.com One of the latest sitemakers to come online: superfamily.com...
Throughout April and May, first-years the Yard over talked the talk of post-randomization spring. My most beloved non-blockmates were far-flung, from the Quad to Quincy to Dunster, and we joined in the promises to visit and plans for biweekly meals that filled the Annenberg air. But I was worried, and I was most worried about the Boys Across the Hall, with whom our relationship had been dependent on proximity. We had never had to make plans, or even to make an effort beyond three steps or a yell. It wasn't that I didn't think...
...welcome the lower rates as an important way to help Harvard's geographically far-flung student body keep in touch with people at home, but we also know that the highly competitive phone market can still do us better. If these were Cambridge apartments, we could choose phone service directly from the carriers and find one among the tens of plans that best fit us. The interrelated Harvard phone network could never create completely independent accounts for us, but there is still room for further competition and lower rates for Harvard phones...
...approach to Russia reflects the pragmatic realism of the Bush team's world view. In interviews, Rice has gently criticized Secretary of State Madeleine Albright for her triumphalism--"Carrying power quietly is sometimes a good thing," Rice says--and expressed disquiet at seeing the U.S. military mobilized for far-flung humanitarian interventions. Her discomfort with the moralistic rationales for sending troops into Kosovo was reflected in Governor Bush's waffly initial statements. Once the decision to intervene was made, she and Bush supported it but felt it should have been carried out more forcefully. On the use of force...