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...hearts and minds around the world, including instant rebuttals of bin Laden on Arab TV, follows a groove worn deep in the relentless political campaigns of New Labour. Britons wonder if "President Blair" is getting so engrossed in global architecture that he'll flub his promise to fix rotten schools and hospitals at home. But the mounting complaints before Sept. 11 about his sanctimony, slickness and control freakery have been smothered in an 88% approval rating for his leadership in the crisis. Both he and Bush have discovered a strange gift of war: the chance to reshape not only...
...institution will be more easily remedied. It would be better, though, if in debating the issue, Harvard administrators and students could show a bit of humility. Let us shift our focus away from the abundant gifts We of the Ivory Tower can bestow upon the unenlightened and instead fix our eyes squarely on the simple question of duty before...
...Community affairs and community relationships are always works in progress,” McCready said. “If one thinks that one can walk into a situation and have the magic fix to it, they’re dead wrong...
...WORLD No Quick Fix As American and British forces continued a military buildup around Afghanistan, the war against terrorism broadened across several fronts - from high finance and diplomacy to the shadowy world of espionage and psychological warfare. The immediate aim was to pinpoint the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden, Washington's prime suspect in the Sept. 11 attacks. His presumed protectors, Afghanistan's Taliban rulers, played for time by issuing a clerical edict urging the al-Qaeda leader to flee. But their refusal to hand him over, despite last-minute representations by Pakistan, made stronger international action all but inevitable...
...stories of the cell and the cig also have eerily similar narrative arcs. The cigarette began as a convenient tobacco vehicle for soldiers in World War I—soldiers who might not live long enough to fix themselves a pipe. After the war, the cigarette quickly evolved into a dainty feminine article to be held aloft by society ladies during two-cheeked kisses and a brooding device for suave anti-social heroes. The early incarnation of the cell phone was an unsexy anvil-sized apparatus for doctors and moguls. Now the base has expanded to include gabby soccer moms...