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...Somewhat surprisingly, Spence’s first year was characterized not by cynicism, but innocence. “I was probably one of the most naïve freshmen you could imagine. Everything surprised me,” she remembers...
Certainly University President Lawrence H. Summers might have found Scott somewhat abrasive during freshman week in 2001. “I said to him, ‘Seeing as I’m the only one here from Wyoming, here’s a piece of Wyoming for you’, and handed him some fresh jerky from an animal I’d shot right before I left for school,” Scott remembers with a laugh. With a crowd of 20 people watching him, Summers politely nibbled at the jerky. “Finally someone said something...
...somewhat aware that I would be, if not the first, one of the first [males] to be on the board,” he says. “[The officers] were also enthusiastic about my membership. If I could inspire others with my own passion for the group, then it seems to me mutually constituting...
...have meant it somewhat sarcastically, but President Bush revealed the essential problem facing his administration's diplomatic efforts in his comments Tuesday on last weekend's peace marches that drew millions across the world: "Some in the world don't view Saddam Hussein as a risk to peace," the President said. "I respectfully disagree." Washington's efforts to win UN Security Council backing for war in Iraq are based on demonstrating that Baghdad has failed to comply with disarmament undertakings, but that may not be enough - precisely for the reason cited by Bush: At the heart of the dispute between...
...global media unwittingly became the terrorists’ agent by relentlessly replaying images of their crimes, reinforcing the message of intimidation. As an antidote, the public is craving a restorative vision, a larger-than-life talisman to avert evil. The two finalist schemes are both highly symbolic—somewhat monumental, but also fragmented and skeletal; they represent more of an infrastructure than a monolithic building. But what do they symbolize? The act of destruction? Or are they symbols of renewal...