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...because for perhaps ten years we will be single, mobile, adrift, Harvard is for many of us a of port of call where we prepare for our departure. Every year, we acquire more trappings of a home and fill our rooms with them; every year, there are more boxes to carry from storage. Every year, we become closer to the people we live with, reproducing in small ways the rituals of the families we’ve left. We eat together. We play board games. We congratulate each other extravagantly on minor successes. We have our own jokes and nicknames...
KERRY I will fight a more effective war on terror, and over the next weeks the American people will see the phoniness of the Bush efforts. They haven't done port security; they're cutting cops; they haven't taken assault weapons off the streets. Firehouses are opened in Iraq; they're shut in the United States. Port security: 95% of our containers come in, and they are uninspected. The fact is that these guys talk tough, but they haven't done what is necessary to make America as safe as it can be. There have been more terrorist incidents...
...past marshland that Shanghai officials hope to turn into an industrial zone and touring high-profile factories. Shortly after Hu returned to Beijing, the central government approved construction of a long-awaited tunnel-and-bridge project to Chongming Island, and city officials say the second phase of a deepwater port has not been blocked by central planners. The message seemed to be that Shanghai could continue steaming ahead. "Hu set out to defang Jiang's tiger" in Shanghai, says the Western diplomat...
...sprawling port town of Surabaya, Yuyun Surya, a lively communications lecturer at Airlangga University, follows her faith by praying five times a day, yet disappoints many acquaintances by shunning the jilbab, the head covering worn by increasing numbers of Indonesian Muslim women. This graduate of an Australian university admires progressive Indonesian scholars for their moderation but also subscribes to the widespread conspiracy theory that Western agents are behind the terrorist attacks in her country: "They have created Islam as the common enemy." And in the dusty grounds of a pesantren in the same city, a young teacher wrestles with...
...styles that woo fashion editors and retailers don't always win over customers (like the high-waisted trousers for adults touted by women's magazines last fall). But the latest preppy trend is catching on with teens. Marshal Cohen, chief apparel analyst at the NPD Group, a Port Washington, N.Y., market-research firm, estimates that about $80 of the average $300 that each student spends on back-to-school clothes will go to preppier, more conservative apparel. No, teens are not gathering to burn their low-rider jeans, but waistlines are inching back up, and Argyle sweaters and plaid skirts...