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...After the Cold War, it was natural for the centrifugal forces always present in the alliance to grow. Paul Kennedy, the Yale historian who wrote The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, advises those who fret about this to relax; he thinks the bonds can afford to stretch a little now that the Soviet Union has fallen, because we can be confident they would snap back in the face of a real threat. But Michael Howard, former British Home Secretary, has just started a new group, Atlantic Partnership, precisely because he fears the alliance may suffer permanent damage from...
...friends in Princeton, N.J., have once again led the way in student aid, ensuring that no student has to fret about dragging a family into financial hardship by attending a costly undergraduate institution. As Harvard makes the news for amassing a mammoth endowment, Princeton makes the news for putting its endowment to good use. Harvard should be ashamed for its lackluster record on financial aid and should take steps to ease the burden of undergraduate tuition, room and board...
...over his national missile defense (NMD) program and punted the issue to his successor, arguing that missile-busting technology was still unproved. While Powell lately has signaled lukewarm support for missile defense, Bush?s Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, is one of nmd?s biggest cheerleaders. Europe?s leaders fret that the U.S. plans will vitiate arms-control regimes and encourage Russia and China to build up their arsenals...
Behind most of the bad things we do to our bodies as adults--eat too much, drink too much, fret too much, veg out too much--are two contradictory ideas we carry with us from childhood. On the one hand, we assume that we are indestructible. And on the other, we think that any damage we inflict on our delicate biological systems can be undone later, when we finally decide to clean...
...person who has worked at home for five years, I didn't need a study to tell me the two spheres are on a collision course. But as I fret over whether my frenzied, fragmented existence truly represents progress, I see that my kids plainly prefer our blended life to the days when I went to an office for 10 hours at a stretch. What I notice: pink frosting crusted under my fingernails as I type. What they notice: the cupcakes I delivered to school...