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...sent to NBC both had St. Petersburg, Fla., postmarks, and both were addressed in a similar unsteady scrawl. Neither appeared to contain anthrax, however; the infectious letter at NBC turned out to be a different envelope, with a Trenton, N.J., postmark. The Times letter is being retested, since overnight assays like the one that initially cleared it are sometimes wrong. After three inconclusive tests, in fact, the Microsoft letter was declared positive last Saturday afternoon. That made three confirmed anthrax attacks: at Microsoft, NBC and American Media...
Light acknowledges that the type of changes he suggests cannot happen overnight. But he says that goals like one small class per student per semester are not out of reach...
...vision of a Harvard community where students are given the space they need—not only to work and learn, but also to socialize and play—calls for complex and significant changes that will not come about overnight. Some solutions will take years. Converting the Inn at Harvard into a new and inviting student center will require not only meticulous planning but also 12 years of waiting until DoubleTree Hotels’ current lease on the property expires...
...considers moral. Nonetheless, even the most principled fight must take advantage of unpredictable changes in the balance of national interests. My enemy's friend one day is my enemy's enemy the next?and that opens the door to an opportunistic friendship or alliance. The problem is that such overnight love affairs can lead to big sorrow in the future...
...Taliban did not come to power overnight, nor were they always our enemies. At the height of the Cold War, they were heroes in the eyes of the West. They belonged to the Afghan mujahideen (freedom fighters) who—with the help of $3 billion dollars worth of U.S. weapons, CIA intelligence and logistical support—succeeded in forcing the Soviets out of Afghanistan. But when the Cold War ended, the factions that made up the mujahideen turned against themselves in a struggle for power. Common sense suggested that we stay in Afghanistan to clean up the mess...