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...billed by the White House as an effort to "celebrate the American spirit," and the President's tone mirrored that optimistic goal. The address, delivered Thursday evening in Atlanta, was not a policy speech; no new initiatives were announced. Instead, it was a high-level pep talk, an attempt to shore up resolve while reassuring the public that the government does, in fact, have things under control...
...read in any depth. The course should focus on works of the highest literary, philosophical and historical merit and with the greatest ability to illuminate those cultures and traditions that have affected the intellectual development of the world which Harvard students will enter. They should be chosen by a high-level committee of professors and administrators, one fully conscious of its vital role in shaping a Harvard education. While the committee should put no arbitrary limits on the number or types of works chosen, we would strongly oppose any sort of tokenism; the works should be chosen for their quality...
...programmers. Companies like Intel and Sun Microsystems are increasingly setting up software-development labs there, positioning Russia as a competitor to India, the outsourcing leader for code-writing projects. Russia could gain the edge on highly specialized product development because its programmers usually have degrees in math and physics and a solid grasp of computer technology. "These are not classic coders. They are high-level mathematicians who work on complex software," says Chuck Mulloy, a spokesman for Intel, which opened a lab in central Russia last year. And at about $12 an hour, the Russians cost less than half...
...course, there’s more to win than money too. He loves the sensation that comes with making high-level decisions. “Poker’s an emotional rollercoaster—the greatest rush in the entire world,” he claims...
...disappear during war. No wonder Bush was so quick to declare the bombings “Acts of War.” Admittedly, a president should have more leeway for action during a crisis—the ability to call up troops, for instance, and to engage in high-level diplomatic talks. But it never relieves him of his responsibility to tell the American people what he is doing. If we aren’t a nation of democratic citizens, then he does not have much of a nation to protect, and such a nation cannot exist if its citizens...