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...hunch of a border guard. It makes for one terrifying story to the U.S., which has many terrorist enemies around the world but has stayed generally free of attack on its own soil, and it exposes a disturbing truth - America is only as secure as its borders. One problem from America's standpoint is that Canadians don't seem to care much. "There's a sense of shock that this could happen under our watch," says TIME Montreal contributor Linda Gyulai, "but people here are more shocked than worried. We realize that any real threat is directed toward...
...real problem with Harvard's curriculum, though, is not that the Core is too foreign; rather, it is entirely too familiar. So many Core courses deal with the present or recent past--"The Warren Court" in Historical Studies B and "Industrial East Asia" in Foreign Cultures, for instance--that students are tempted to explore the cozy space within their current horizons rather than take a broadening course. Also, it seems that every ethnicity is recognized with at least one course, allowing students, in effect, to study the subject with which they are already (and quite inevitably) most familiar: themselves...
...wish I could offer George W. Bush some advice about how to fend off efforts to portray him as a dimwit, but even Dan Quayle rejected the only slogan I came up with when he had a similar problem: "Definitely Not the Dumbest Guy in the Deke House." Political pundits are warning us that the public is in danger of seeing all the presidential candidates as caricatures--McCain as a hothead, for instance, and Gore as a manlike object and Forbes as a terminal dork. Just who might be responsible for leaving the voters with these impressions...
ROAD RAGE When a car with a child on board gets into a traffic accident, physical injuries aren't the only thing to be worried about. Fully 25% of youngsters involved in car accidents--even minor ones--develop post-traumatic stress disorder, a problem usually associated with soldiers at war. What are the signs? Recurring nightmares, trouble concentrating, even difficulty carrying on normal life activities. If symptoms persist for more than a month, seek professional help...
While the court's decision will have limited impact beyond the state's borders, it will have only practical implications for gays and lesbians in Vermont. That, says Cloud, is precisely the problem. "If the point of gay marriage is largely symbolic - and I think it is - then it's crucial for the state to say to gay and lesbian couples: Your relationship is deserving of the same respect and dignity as straight relationships." Vermont's Supreme Court, adds Cloud, walked away from the chance to make a landmark decision by declaring that the state must recognize gay unions...