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...newly-bedewed verdure of Cambridge in spring is overtaken by exhaust from station wagons and SUVs each year, many students have secretly hoped for a better day in the future—a day when gargantuan vehicles belching carbon monoxide are supplanted by the quiet, healthy hum of bicycle wheels...
...country post--Sept. 11 may be entirely different from the country before the outrage occurred. It may be a more serious electorate, less tolerant of political boilerplate, more favorably disposed toward serious governance and ready to make sacrifices for the common good. Or not. If the world stays quiet and the economy picks up, the Democrats may face an unbeatable incumbent in 2004, no matter how hard they try. All the more reason to act as Democrats haven't in quite a while: Speak your minds, dream a little, tell people some truths they don't want to hear...
Razali Ismail, the United Nations special envoy to Burma, is a devoted practitioner of quiet diplomacy. His subtle prodding was widely credited with persuading Burma's military junta to free, in May last year, the Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest. So it was a surprise when, in late April, the Malaysian diplomat told reporters in Bangkok he was "perplexed and disappointed" with the generals' refusal to grant him a visa for the past six months so that he could try to foster dialogue between the two sides: "I really cannot understand...
...looking for the point of a book. When ideas are treated as ends, they can be deep, dignified and enormous; when they are forced to compete with one another in a crass market-place of ideas, they become scrappy, instrumental and unpalatable. My first aim this summer is to quiet their squabbling and nourish each runt with my mental largesse (owing in no small part to the largesse of the Harvard College Research Program). When the fall comes, the weak and infirm shall have to be weeded out; but in the meantime, I’ll luxuriate in the abundance...
...Tonis’ quiet and steadfast leadership through “the troubles” on campus earned him the enduring respect of both students and faculty...