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...public engagement was at St. John's Church on Lafayette Square, across the street from the White House. A year ago, Bush spent 14 hours visiting all three sites of destruction and death--downtown Manhattan, the Pentagon and Shanksville, Pa. He ended that pilgrimage with a speech at Ellis Island--the Statue of Liberty and the wounded New York City skyline providing a backdrop both poignant and uplifting. This year, by contrast, a White House aide said before Sept. 11, "the message is low key." It could hardly have been lower...
...precisely align the reader and the tag, but with RFID even old people and young children can use the system," says library-board senior development manager Wong Tack Wai. With costs down to 40˘ an item, libraries in Australia, South Korea, New Zealand and Macau have adopted the island's patented system...
...Beijing may have learned not to meddle in the island's affairs around election time. Taiwan's third presidential election will be held in March?and in the two previous elections China's attempts to influence the outcome have boomeranged. After China launched its missiles in '96?prompting the U.S. to rush two aircraft carriers to the region?voters gave Lee a landslide victory. Four years later China directed its ire at presidential candidate Chen Shui-bian, whose Democratic Progressive Party sprang from the pro-independence movement. Beijing branded him a "dangerous" separatist and threatened "a blood-soaked battle...
BURLINGTON, VT.—Things looked bleak for the Harvard men’s soccer team heading into the closing minutes of the first half of its home opener against the University of Rhode Island yesterday...
...Friday’s game, which ended in a 0-0 tie, but he was bumped to the bench as forward Brian L. Charnock ’06 returned to the starting line-up for the Crimson’s 2-1 win yesterday over the University of Rhode Island...