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...wanted to be when he grew up changed. His goals were more related to his heart." His family expected that his future would involve aiding Muslim charities and studying the Koran. The U.S. saw his future in terrorism. Now it's with the courts. --With reporting by Hannah Beech/Shanghai, Simon Elegant/Kuala Lumpur and Polly Forster and Nathan Thornburgh/Portland
...vote, and particularly in New York in the wake of Sept. 11, "people need a compelling reason to throw an incumbent out, and that case has not been made by McCall," says Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist College Poll. "That's the bottom line." --Reported by Simon Crittle/New York City...
...imagine a future of triumphant international decency, and its pessimists, who think expecting people to be nice is a mug's game. David Rieff is a pessimist--a gloomy pessimist at that. At the end of his ruthlessly lucid book A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis (Simon & Schuster; 367 pages), Rieff, with disconsolate satisfaction, quotes Alberto Navarro, former director of the European Commission Humanitarian Aid Office, as saying, "Mankind is slowly, but in a very determined way, going back to barbarism...
...would take aim at Saddam's palaces and other manifestations of his power, such as television transmission stations. Saddam and his most loyal troops in Baghdad and his hometown of Tikrit would be key targets. "The U.S. is going to be applying some pretty awesome military technology," says Steven Simon, assistant director of London's International Institute of Strategic Studies. "The idea is to kick out the legs of the chair underneath the regime." At least initially, say Pentagon officials, the bulk of the Iraqi military would be out of bounds. According to the current game plan, the U.S. invaders...
Ultimately, the authority to choose which sorority can colonize belongs to the Harvard Panhellenic Council, but Simon says she will consult with the founders of Pleiades, who talked to Simon over the summer about forming a sorority. But whether the twinkling Pleiades sisters evolve into Harvard’s newest Greek sisterhood or not, sorority leaders believe the female Greek scene will only get bigger...