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...more apt analogy. "America has done this kind of work before," he says. "We lifted up the defeated nations of Japan and Germany and stood with them as they built representative governments ... America today accepts the challenge of helping Iraq in the same spirit, for their sake and our own." Perhaps the greatest difference is that this time the actual invasion feels like the easy part. "While we can't be defeated militarily, we're not going to win this thing militarily alone," General John Abizaid told the Senate last week. "We have to get everything together: economics, politics, intelligence...
...rife with inconsistency. Yale plans to accept either exam, while the University of California system will only accept the new exam, for example. We hope that Harvard will change its policy and that other colleges will follow its example accepting both tests, if only for consistency’s sake. Otherwise, the SAT will be to college admissions what analogies are to the old test—unnecessarily frustrating...
...patrol near the Korean Demilitarized Zone, and Washington wants to court-martial him. (His relatives in the U.S. maintain that he was abducted and then brainwashed by North Korea.) If Jenkins leaves North Korea, however, the Japanese would prefer that he stay in Japan for the sake of his family. Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi recently conferred with U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell on the Jenkins case; Koizumi also talked to President George W. Bush on the telephone last week about his planned trip to North Korea...
...career. Lynne Truss is here to help you with the really important issues--such as the proper placement of apostrophes, the six uses of the comma and the preservation of the hyphen. Truss, a British journalist and novelist, is a self-proclaimed stickler for punctuation. Not for its own sake, mind you, but because, as she writes in Eats, Shoots & Leaves (Gotham Books; 209 pages), "without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning...
Underclasspeople: you’re going to spend plenty of time recruiting as a senior. For Pete’s sake, don’t waste your best hours as a sophomore and a junior practicing to wear a suit and tie. Instead, go out with your friends. Play football by the river. Read Finnegan’s Wake. Write a limerick. Join a sports team. Make your bed. Visit an art museum. Get wasted. Go make friends with the girl behind the counter at Starbucks. I dunno—do something, but do it because it?...