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...Cambridge. At the same time, public transportation was reaching new areas of the city. Boston and Cambridge were united by a modern and efficient trolley system, and soon it was difficult to convince students of modest means that they should live in Harvard's bedraggled dorms when the prospect of cheaper rooms off-campus presented itself...
...winds of change in our society. For Harvard a decade ago, the challenge was fundraising. Today, after meeting that challenge, Harvard and its next president should turn their focus toward the future of higher education, and on how that future will be influenced by technology. For example, the prospect of distance learning has the attention of many of Harvard's rivals, but the benefits of the project itself are still ambiguous. It is Harvard's role to be a leader on such issues, since they have the potential to change the place, tenor and nature of higher education...
...five envisaged by Washington to cope with the emergence of a potential North Korean threat." Then again, Putin's primary objective may be to outflank Washington's efforts to build an umbrella system Russia fears may eventually neutralize its own nuclear deterrent, thereby destabilizing the nuclear balance - a prospect that has Western Europe scared that Washington's plan could reignite the arms race. "It's a Russian tradition in arms control politics to do whatever they can to peel away Europe from the U.S.," says Thompson. "And right now, it may be an effective maneuver...
...these reasons, and perhaps because of institutional pessimism, Israeli military officials expect fighting to resume. "It's not a matter of if. It's a matter of when," says a senior intelligence officer. Residents of northern Israel are petrified by the prospect. With Hizballah now right against the border, its fighters can easily fire into Israeli towns. Border infiltrations are another risk. Emblazoned in the collective memory of Misgav Am, a kibbutz that juts like a polyp into Lebanese territory, is the night in 1980 when Palestinian terrorists slipped across the border and took over the communal dormitory where local...
...fact, there was rejoicing all across the world. First the Asian markets, then the European bourses surged -- along with the yen and the euro -- on the prospect of the Big Bad American Economy being brought just a little bit low. See, the dollar, bolstered by investors and buttressed by rising interest rates, has been beating up the other currencies in the playground all spring. To keep their own currency up, the Europeans especially have felt pressure to hike their own rates along with Greenspan, thus endangering the nice little expansion they've got going over in euroland. Now everybody from...