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...Bush let us know what he expected of us was to go first--rise to this test, grow into the job. He told the Taliban the terms on which their survival depended: Hand over Osama bin Laden, or share his fate. He told Muslims at home and abroad that we are not at war with Islam but with those who desecrate their peaceful faith. "We are not deceived by their pretenses to piety. We have seen their kind before. They are the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of the 20th century...They follow in the path of fascism, Nazism...
...Fate has whacked the corps of flight attendants twice: first with the Sept. 11 murders, then with deep layoffs planned because of the dip in travel. American's flight attendants have been working without a contract for 2 1/2 years; just recently, they voted a new agreement into place. Some of those brave enough to stay at work will not be allowed...
...strange twist of fate,” Smith says, “it was at those meetings that I started thinking that maybe I shouldn’t try to change. I started to think that people can’t change.” Senior year, David Smith came out to most of his friends, including those from CI and HRCF. “I was finally at peace,” he says...
Less than a week after graduation, Sofia A. Lidskog ‘01 got a call from Jeopardy, packed up her stuff and moved to the West Coast. Just a few months before, Lidskog never would have believed her fate. “I was looking into I-banking and consulting,” she says. “But I also knew that I loved to perform.” As she sat in the Barker Center drinking coffee one day a friend told her about the “Jeopardy” contest. Instantly she set about making...
...target of a terrorist attack this past weekend—at least, if you believe The Boston Globe and the numerous forwarded e-mail messages making their way around campus. Some residents fled to the suburbs, or to another state entirely. A fearless few challenged fate by heading to the heart of the Hub. Though it turned out to be a false alarm, Boston’s reactions to the perceived threat illustrate the loss of innocence, and of comfort, that Americans must face after the tragedy of Sept...