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...FEMA) James Lee Witt keynoted the symposium, delivering a scathing indictment of the Bush administration’s management of the federal emergency preparedness system. Witt, the Clinton-appointed director of FEMA from 1993 to 2001, also called for active student and academic involvement in disaster management. Citing a maxim from an Argentine Baptist minister, Witt said that “if we are not part of planting the trees of the future, we do not deserve to stand in the shade of the trees of the past.” Witt oversaw the elevation of FEMA to a Cabinet...
...glory of a mighty civilization. "There's a dragon in the ancient East, its name is China," go the folk song's stirring lyrics. By the time the final standings were tallied in the Olympic competition, the Zhangs' choice of music seemed particularly prescient. Although Tatiana Totmianina and Maxim Marinin won the 12th consecutive pairs gold for Russia (or, previously, the Soviet Union), the Chinese nabbed the silver (Zhang Dan and Zhang Hao), bronze (Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo) and fourth place (Pang Qing and Tong Jian)?all in a sport China first entered little more than two decades...
...summer spent masturbating to Laguna Beach reruns caused us to forget certain fundamental truths about Harvard. Although Catizone kept it fresh in his jean jacket and Schonberger happily resorted to “Plan B” (buying a Gamecube), the fall semester reminded us of one important maxim: Anticipation often breeds disappointment. It’s easy to fear a repeat performance. For seniors, it now seems that the pressure to make four years of “awesome college memories” in the space of four months can only end in tears, as well as a plethora...
...only fair. And we speak not only of Harvard, but also America. For even here, inequality festers in its many subtle forms. From income to intelligence to bone structure, humanity is riddled with dissimilarities that put egalitarian ideals to shame. If equality is truly to be the maxim by which Americans lead their lives, they should strive not to be one people, but, rather, one person. Eliminate inequality, and enforce equality with all the might our hefty $30 billion endowment has to offer. Usher in an age of glorious homogeneity! Life isn’t fair. That?...
Last year China's magazine market totaled about $400 million in advertising, but with 20% annual growth, it would eclipse Europe's and Japan's by 2010. In India, where Maxim launched last month and Playboy promises a nude-free edition, $1.5 billion worth of print ads were sold last year. International editions are usually low-investment licensing deals. Maxim has 31 such editions, Rolling Stone 11. China requires foreign media to choose local partners, and neither it nor India has a standard for auditing circulation. But DeLuca isn't worried. "As they evolve, we will evolve, and business will...