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...retaliatory strikes didn't take place, and no attacks had hit the U.S. after Sept. 11, 2001. Several key leaders of al-Qaeda, the network headed by Osama bin Laden that carried out the Sept. 11 attacks, had been arrested. Just days before the bombings in Riyadh, President Bush stood on the deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln to bask in his Iraq triumph and declared, "The war on terror is not over, yet it is not endless. We do not know the day of final victory, but we have seen the turning of the tide...
...monsters. But when the pixilated storytellers at Pixar fashion them, these playthings come to life. Take Marlin, the single-dad clown fish, voiced by Albert Brooks, in the new Pixar astonishment Finding Nemo. Brooks says that when a reporter on a junket described this fish father as overprotective, "I stood up and said, 'Overprotective? If your wife and almost all your children were eaten by a shark, you wouldn't be overprotective?' Then I realized--I'm yelling about a fish...
...mall Spanish pop tunes blared from loudspeakers as families pushed strollers along marble floors, past shop windows for large Spanish chain stores like Zara and El Corte Inglés, and over half a dozen international brands such as Nike, H&M and Benetton. As in any mall, teenagers stood in atriums under giant skylights, smoked cigarettes and checked each other out. The McDonald's was packed, as were four tapas bars. Seventeen-year-old Leticia Gonzalez said that while she would still hang out in Madrid at night, she thought she would shop here. "There is a better atmosphere...
...empathy and sensitivity to break out of the mould. I'm thinking of people like Will Wright, creator of the Sims (and now the Sims 2) and Peter Molyneux (Populous, Black and White, The Movies). (See reviews.) There were also a couple of games which hewed to tradition, but stood out by being by far the most breathtakingly, painstakingly real: Doom III and Half Life 2. And the normally turgid genre of movie tie-ins is showing a lot of promise. Instead of following the plot of the movie, Enter the Matrix wraps its own plot around it. Quidditch World...
Certainly there are substantial difficulties in returning Taubman’s $15 million gift, especially when the building named for him has stood for a decade, but for the sake of our own dignity we must investigate steps to remove his name. Seton Hall’s administrators have investigated revisions to their gift policies that would allow them to remove the names of shamed donors from their buildings. Harvard should follow their lead. We should be certain that we are carefully screening our donors from the outset of the giving process and should include provisions in our contracts with...