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...minus 3 weeks. Like a spring thaw, writing will become revising, though the process will be just as draining. You will feel ecstatic about strange things, like finding an errant quote or cutting out the split infinitives. You also will find yourself talking about the thesis like it was super-interesting to others, from section to bars to the checker in the dining hall. Please feel free to restrain yourself. Please...
...would put Harvard into the semifinals of the ECAC playoffs against another quarterfinal winner. If the top seeds prevail, then the Crimson's semifinal opponent will be No. 5 St. Lawrence, who split with Harvard during the regular season...
...climb on the ledge just yet. Greenspan knows how to handle politicians, and he must know when not to worry about them. Bush is facing a House divided and a Senate split right down the middle, and to an economist, gridlock is always preferred. Even if the cut passes in full - which Dennis Hastert has already placed in doubt - any economic impact is at least a year away, long after Greenspan's spring landing has been judged soft or hard by economists...
...experts warned? On the contrary. Convinced at last of American seriousness, the Russians immediately acquiesced. After just one month of Bush, Moscow has come forward with its very own missile-defense plan. The fact that it is not well sketched out and that it is in part designed to split us off from Europe is beside the point. The Russians have responded, as did the Soviets before them, to American firmness. Faced with reality, they accommodate...
...voucher" has taken on a political life of its own, and its introduction could wreak havoc on the education debate. "If the conversation turns to vouchers, the air will be poisoned," he says. Not surprisingly, perhaps, in this era of perfectly bisected public opinion, recent Zogby polls show Americans split on the issue of vouchers, with 45 percent opposed and 48 percent in favor. That division could mean political deadlock, and that's a danger the Bush camp is slowly coming to terms with. Despite Bush's well-known enthusiasm for vouchers, spokesman Ari Fleischer said Monday they will...