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...noon today, students, faculty and administrators will gather in Tercentenary Theatre to reflect upon the events of Sept. 11 and its ramifications one year later...
...coffee that's not environmentally friendly. The most popular TV show for the year was Friends--whose Manhattan-based characters, notes Chicago Tribune TV critic Steve Johnson, "never seemed to realize the skyline had changed." Applications are up for both the Marine Corps and the Peace Corps; does that reflect good hearts or bad job prospects...
...threatened to "take out" Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. Others fear that he risks losing control of his presidency unless he gets control of the widening public debate--and confusion--about his Administration's plan to oust the Iraqi leader. In private comments that appear to reflect the President's own thinking, several stated flatly that Bush knows he is juggling too many balls both at home and abroad to launch a war, much less a pre-emptive one, anytime soon. "They cannot bite off any more big goals," says an adviser who speaks regularly to the Vice...
...lofty proclamations. The perennial failure of such summits to produce meaningful programs of action has prompted some observers to suggest that summitry itself may begin to breed cynicism. Environmentalist groups, however, tend to believe that the cynicism is actually sharpest among the participant governments, whose input often tends to reflect their own narrow economic concerns rather than those of the greater good they've ostensibly gathered to protect...
...also creating a smart new way of sailing without all the hassles of owning a boat. "Certification has created a major evolution of expectations on the public's part," says asa executive vice president Harry Munns. "Interest in sailing has grown far beyond what boat sales used to reflect...