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...those who objected to the plan by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for incoming freshmen to read a book about the Koran [NATION, Aug. 19], I would note that every religion, past, present and future, is a fit subject for academic study anywhere. Those who are suspicious of the idea probably have a dripping ax in their closet. ALLEN N. WOLLSCHEIDT Chandler, Ariz...
...Department challenged the report's conclusions on the ineffectiveness of the effort to clamp down on terrorists' assets. But the U.N. document also detailed the relative ease with which terrorists can cross international boundaries and replenish their supplies of weapons. Al-Qaeda, said the report, "is by all accounts 'fit and well' and poised to strike again at its leisure...
Newman and Patel were developing an enormously effective legal chemistry. They share a gluttonous appetite for work, and they make a natural good cop-bad cop team. "Our personalities fit together. He's the nice one," she admits. "I'm very aggressive. He calms me down." They worked out a division of labor, splitting up the petition into chunks according to who had expertise in what, swapping drafts and editing each other's work. "We've pulled some fairly close to all-nighters," says Patel. "Things where we say, 'We just have to do X, and we don't leave...
Suffolk County, N.Y., was shattered on Sept. 11. Grief reconfigured the community, connecting strangers through loss. Artist Matt Mahurin found seven people from the county who had lost loved ones and fit them into a photo montage of recovery. Brendan Ryan, who lost his wife Kristy Irvine Ryan, stands in the foreground beside Kristy's sister Wendy Toomey. Together with other grieving relatives and neighbors, they constitute a new horizon, alive and irrevocably altered
...GPRS system in Hong Kong, and even though I was supposed to be able to get data at rates comparable with dial-up services, I found Web access frustratingly slow. Not only that, the Web doesn't have a lot of content that is optimized to fit the small screens of handheld devices...