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...post-Sept. 11 patriotic fervor has silenced skepticism on Capitol Hill. One of the few complaints heard last week was that the new budget buys too few warships. (It came mostly from lawmakers from shipbuilding districts.) "The Democrats are terrified to challenge the President on defense," says Lawrence Korb, a Reagan-era Pentagon appointee. Senator Carl Levin, the Michigan Democrat who chairs the Armed Services Committee, expressed only mild concern, noting that the budget "comes without a comprehensive strategy or a detailed guide to that spending...
...quad in competition? Will Apolo Anton Ohno sweep all his races? Will Picabo Street withstand one last downhill dash? A few months ago, how much would we have cared? It is a pleasure now to pull up a chair and give these athletes our full attention, to savor their fervor and cheer them...
With such few countries able to compete in the Winter Games, the usual patriotic fervor of a Summer Olympics is also lost. While there will certainly be a strong American spirit at Salt Lake City, this year is an exception...
...quad in competition? Will Apolo Anton Ohno sweep all his races? Will Picabo Street withstand one last downhill dash? A few months ago, how much would we have cared? It is a pleasure now to pull up a chair and give these athletes our full attention, to savor their fervor and cheer them...
...addition to recommendations, the committee was supposed to provide reasoning. The campus looked to the HCECP not only for the resolution of an extended political conflict, but also for an explanation of how Harvard should act as a university and an employer. The report speaks often and with much fervor about Harvard’s “obligation to be a good employer,” and Harvard is of course obliged to be morally responsible in all things. But anyone consulting the report to learn what being a good employer might entail (and why) will find painfully little...