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Smith made a name for himself well before coming to Harvard. He is a former captain of both the U.S. Under-17 and Under-18 teams. At the prestigious Hockey Night in Boston summer tournament, he was named the top professional prospect...
...blissfully unattached single devoid of responsibility for anything (except my rent) and anyone (save my bevy of blissfully unattached friends), I've always found nothing more frightening than the prospect of having kids of my own to feed and shelter. Recently, though, I've been dwelling on something far scarier: educating them - myself. With an estimated two million kids from all economic classes now schooled at home, this isn't just idle worrying on my part. And considering I will surely never make enough money to pay for private schools - and fancy myself always living in hip urban centers with...
...Bush is in a bind--caught between his principles and moneymen on one side and the prospect of summertime blackouts, spiraling prices and mutinous legislators on the other. He needs a way out, and may have found one. This week a little-known agency called the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission meets in a special session, its first with two new Bush appointees in place. For the past year, FERC has ignored pleas for sweeping electricity price controls in California and other Western states. Last fall, at a congressional subcommittee hearing in San Diego, chairman Curtis Hebert suggested that consumers should...
...little to gain and much to lose from a resumption of the peace process. After all, the basic premise of the peace process has been that the Israelis will withdraw from some or all of the West Bank and Gaza (depending on which side you listen to), and that prospect is fundamentally threatening to a settler movement whose principal objective has always been a permanent Israeli presence in those territories. The deal offered by Barak at Camp David last year would have ultimately involved Israel abandoning a significant number of settlements, and despite the fact that Sharon is a longtime...
...instant last week, it appeared that Manila had trapped the group?offering the prospect of ridding the country for good of this band of seafaring bandits who work with the zeal of holy warriors. On June 3, more than 5,000 soldiers had the outlaws cornered in a hospital at Lamitan, a town on Basilan island, about 900 km south of Manila. All the army had to do was tighten the siege and the guerrillas would have been forced to surrender the hostages they had plucked from an island resort a few days before. But commanders dropped the ball...