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...there are even more problems than the sins of “religious” athletes. What happens when Boston College plays Notre Dame? Who does God root for? What about in Brigham Young’s games...
Many Americans are worried that the President has taken his eye off the ball, that he has yet to fulfill his promise to root out the perpetrators of 9/11. By 2 to 1, they see Osama bin Laden as a greater threat than Saddam. "We're getting tied up in too many things," says Murphy, 82, the Chattanooga veteran. "We need to get that bunch that bombed the World Trade Center first...
Winners in the first round of the postwar sweepstakes are likely to include many of the same companies that competed to rebuild Afghanistan: Fluor Daniel, Kellogg Brown & Root, Perini, Parsons, the Louis Berger Group and Bechtel. Costs are expected to be lower than in Afghanistan because Iraq has a functioning technocracy that should make design, engineering and construction much faster. "Given all the Iraqis have done to hide their weapons systems and to build palaces and bunkers for Saddam [Hussein]," says a major U.S. contractor, "they'll be able to provide a trained construction work force and sophisticated materials like...
...Iraq, the Arab world's most secular nation, Islamists are a relatively new phenomenon. There's no telling how many there are. The government says Iraqi society is too open-minded for religious fundamentalism to take root, but many outside observers point to Saddam's massive programme of mosque-building as an effort to placate - and even foster - growing religious extremism...
...council surely has the best intentions in mind, but their approach overlooks the root cause of our dating difficulties. Harvard students need more guts—not more mixers; we cannot rely on the council to hold our hand and walk us through the process. There are already plenty of opportunities and plenty of excuses to go out—if only Harvard’s notoriously confident students could just get up a little courage to make a move. But if we don’t, there’s no one to blame, or fix the problem...