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...meantime, it will be this committee that will study the University’s options and coordinate the necessary legwork. The committee will help to compile the raw data that will inform an ultimate recommendation to Summers and the Corporation...
...Europe stands to benefit too. The Russian economy grew an impressive 8% in 2000 and 5% in 2001, and with trade of $76.3 billion last year, the E.U. is Russia's top partner. But this beauty is largely skin deep. The country's economy depends almost entirely on exporting raw materials, and its recent success owes more to higher oil prices than to market reform - which helps explain why its growth is slowing. Other businesses are propped up by price controls that amount to a $5 billion subsidy. And the whole system, according to a recent report, is lubricated...
Politicians and the media are talking about a failure to connect the dots, and the FBI and CIA can do more to share information with each other and local police. (Since 9/11, the bureau has been sharing raw reports just so it is not accused of holding anything back.) But I have not seen any pre-9/11 dots that could have been connected, at least with the FBI operating under current laws and guidelines. If we want to throw away most of the requirements for due process, then there is a lot more the FBI and police could...
...monotony of their oil-rich states for a long weekend in Oman. "Oman is the only interesting country in the gulf," declares a Kuwaiti princess. "All the others are just the same." Compared with the singularly flat and bland desert landscapes of the gulf coast states, Oman's raw, rocky mountains, plunging fjords and ribbons of white sand beaches are a visual buffet to sand-seared eyes...
...thought occurs in this week of the first Memorial Day since September 11 - an especially painful occasion, since the memories of those fallen in our latest war are so raw. It is as if they've just left the room. Memorial proposals such as the vertical columns of light sound good to me, too. But the reason I favor an informal little library has to do with the way our attitudes toward death have changed in recent years. That, and the fact that a library is built out of words...