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...tragic events of last Tuesday and the mindless destruction of human life. At Harvard as well as throughout the nation, we have spent the past week trying to cope with our loss and our anger. This is both a private and a collective undertaking, as we try to fathom a response to unfathomable acts. In our effort to do this, hundreds of members of our community have come together to form the Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice...
That faith is being placed in a decidedly unusual man. At one level, the Prime Minister's appeal is easy to fathom. "He wants to destroy the things people hate the most," says Heizo Takenaka, an economics professor who last spring joined the Cabinet. At the top of that list: the crusty political barons and their backroom deals, the endless paving of highways that go nowhere, schools that stress conformity over creativity. Yet in any time but the present, Koizumi would never have been trusted. He has a reputation as a lone wolf, a bit of an eccentric...
...selling out, exposing Kurt Cobain not as a misguided follower like Vicious, but as a contradictory control freak who sacrificed his life in order ensure the perpetuation of his status as a musical legend. Cross draws on an inevitable truth about major-label music that Vicious could not fathom and that Cobain knew from the start—that no music can become popular without some degree of commercial compromise...
...marketing guy who came up with the “new economy ad” no longer works here. No, he wasn’t fired, but about three weeks into my summer, he decided to pack his bags and return to Apple. I can only fathom that the fantasy utopia still lives on there, in ultra-hip advertising and candy colored computer shells...
...below zero growth. It now looks like the worst of it is over, because two big economic stimuli - Greenspan's series of rate cuts and the tax-rebate checks set to start arriving in August - are about to kick in. Consumers have always been nearly impossible to fathom, but at this point it's counterintuitive to think that consumer spending will now start to decrease with those two things on their...