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...entire population if he could. He is just back from the bedside of a child dying from brain cancer. "Might brighten his life," he says. "Little guy lying there. Just broke your heart." Next he worries about a Kentucky kid who wants Bush to come for his Eagle Scout ceremony. Mail bearing these small hopes is at flood tide. He wants to tell the boy he can't be there but to keep going, keep trying. These are little things compared with the power equations at the White House, but to him they are "points of light" that answer...
Most Harvard rock musicians knew they wereinterested in music at early ages: Levine boughtthe KISS single "I Was Made For Loving You," atthe age of four, and has known Kreilkamp fromchildhood. Melanie Martinez '95 (lead singer forNeverlovers) was pictured on a girl scout cookiebox playing drums...
Satellite images, for example, are useful in the war on drugs to pinpoint airstrips, processing plants and storage areas operated by narcotics cartels in Colombia. Once the drug operations are located, intelligence teams intercept radio messages from the installations and send agents in to scout the area on the ground. When the Colombian military acted on one such U.S. tip, it moved in and seized 26 people, six planes and 20 tons of cocaine...
...directorial debut, this ponytailed stud -- the most consistently successful action star worldwide -- kicks butt in the name of political correctness. He plays Forrest Taft, the usual genius renegade from the CIA who bonds with sacred Inuit spirits and works every woodland trick in the boy scout manual. He also thwarts an oil company run by evil Michael Caine. But first a few good guys must be beaten, kicked and de-fingered, all to give Forrest an excuse to cripple his enemies and blow up most of Alaska...
...Certainly, I don't expect Harvard to adopt its own version of the Scout Law, and I'm not sure it should. But I do think a lot of people here would benefit from more public discussion and thought about the virtues outlined in the Scout Law. And I can offer three years worth of examples of Harvard people who either ignored their moral senses or allowed them to be obscured by cynicism, ambition or greed. Consider...