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...Newland, co-director of the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, says, "The facts remain the same." Globalization will continue to spin people around the world. The U.S. will continue to have two enormous land borders with peaceful neighbors; we're never going to see watch towers along the 49th parallel. Each year, says Newland, there are 489 million border crossings into the U.S., involving 127 million passenger vehicles; each year, 820,000 planes and 250,000 ships enter U.S. airspace or waters. However terrorism is beaten, it won't be by American border controls...
...more importantly, the victory gets the Crimson back in the win column and ends any parallel to last season’s five-game losing streak that closed out the regular season...
...Hart, author of "New Hat," took the stage first. Tall and thin, he seemed the antithesis of his squat, ovular characters. Only by donning a woolly cap did he draw a parallel to his best-known character, the anti-corporate vagrant Hutch Owen. Using an overhead projector, an assistant switched transparencies made from Hart's book, "The Collected Hutch Owen," while Hart read the dialogue and even such onomatopoeia as "blip" and "wham." Afterwards he took questions from the moderator and audience...
...calm some nerves in a lightning whip around the Middle East Thursday, stopping in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Oman before heading for Uzbekistan, the former Soviet Republic that may well become the key forward base for any U.S. military action in Afghanistan. And in what appears to be a parallel mission, Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair - who has shouldered a good part of the coalition building responsibilities on behalf of the Bush administration - headed for Russia and Pakistan...
That said, historians, as they must, will peer into their occluded mirrors to find the closest parallel to such a challenge. Is it the Monroe Doctrine, which warned the nations of the Old World to keep their snouts away from the feeding troughs of the New? Or--less happily--is the analogy to Woodrow Wilson's determination to make the world safe for democracy, a crusade disavowed at home and mocked abroad and whose ending was the greatest charnel house the world has ever known? History tells us this at least: when nations take upon themselves a global responsibility...