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...anything useful. President Bush laid out a five-point plan for Iraq; Senator Kerry laid out a four-point global foreign policy. Both speeches were resolute on terrorism and honest about our responsibilities to the Iraqi people. Both speeches were nattily written. Bush included some of his usual eloquent freedom riffs. Kerry's language was clear and clean, for a change. And yet, both speeches were dispiriting for their high-minded abstractions...
...uniquely Harvard innovation (internationalization). Notably, U.S. News and World Report lists 42 schools where at least half its students study abroad, including nearby Wellesley. Even the most foundational change proposed by the review, a shift from the Core Curriculum to distribution requirements giving students “great freedom of choice,” is a long overdue synchronization with the academic programs of Yale, Princeton and Stanford. Imitation is flattery, and Harvard has been doing a lot of flattering. But as long as we are looking to other schools for ideas, why aren’t we adopting...
...freedom to change plans at lightning speed (a necessity for kids in tow), hire your own vehicle. May and June are the recommended months for travel, before hordes of other self-drive tourists clog up the roads, hotels and restaurants. Early summer is also the time when the rape fields are in full bloom, allowing children and adults alike to marvel at the blaze of yellow...
...comes terrorism. Railroads upped security after 9/11, but since the March bombing of four trains in Madrid, commuters have been more worried. "Anyone seen taking photographs is going to be questioned," laments Richard Maloney, spokesman for SEPTA, Philadelphia's public-transit authority. "The wide-open spaces and the freedom we have enjoyed to meander almost anywhere is gone." Urban train buffs report being surrounded by police cars and customs agents. A Haverford College student of South Asian descent was detained last year by SEPTA police after he photographed a station--homework for an urban-history class, as it turned...
...looking at the photograph of a planeload of flag-draped coffins of U.S. soldiers [May 3]. There was nothing morbid about the picture; it just showed the reality of war. It brought home the finality of some Americans' sacrifices for their country. Let the people see the price of freedom. DEANNE HUNTER Frankfort...