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...wanna go have a smoke and talk?”); (6) engender constant fiddling; (7) are more convenient versions of an existing technology (pipe is to cigarette as landline is to cell phone); and (8) are incongruous luxuries for Third World inhabitants, often at the expense of basic necessities. Indeed, where Humphrey Bogart once stumped for “Turf” cigarettes, now Pierce Brosnan’s 007 testifies that he only uses an Eriksson phone to connect with Moneypenny...

Author: By Couper Samuelson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cells and Cigs | 10/2/2001 | See Source »

...stresses the newly meritocratic University felt and the turbulence it encountered. Finally, they turn to discuss what they call a shift toward worldliness over the course of the last third of the century. The Kellers address the developments of the past two presidential administrations and argue that Harvard has turned its focus to the growing importance of racial, gender, and cultural diversity and has exhibited an increased involvement in the world outside...

Author: By David H. Gellis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A New Harvard History | 9/28/2001 | See Source »

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich has created quite a following. Her girl-power quote has graced pins, mugs, and even a manifesto website by one “Lordess Ariel the Third Esquire.” Now, Ulrich bumper stickers are the latest rage. The company “one angry girl designs” (motto: taking over the world, one shirt at a time) takes feminism to an entirely different level...

Author: By K.e. Kitchen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Fast and the Feminist | 9/27/2001 | See Source »

...they no longer needed the karate and flight manuals investigators would later discover. Two teams of five rendezvoused at Boston's Logan, a third group of four at Newark and the last five men at Dulles, with their knives and their box cutters either stashed in their shoulder bags or perhaps already concealed onboard. Wail Alshehri, Waleed Alshehri, Mohamed Atta, Abdulaziz Alomari and Satam Al Suqami boarded American Airlines 11 and drove it square into the World Trade north tower at 8:45 a.m. A few minutes later, Marwan Al-Shehhi, Fayez Ahmed, Mohald Alshehri, Hamza Alghamdi and Ahmed Alghamdi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Breed of Terrorist | 9/24/2001 | See Source »

...flying the planes or crouching in the foxholes when the first stage of a military campaign against terrorism takes place. And since the states that can be said to harbor terrorism include Syria, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and Sudan, the broadest conceptions of such a campaign would amount to a third World War. In the short term, any military operations will be more limited in scope. As suspicion hardened in Washington that al-Qaeda ("the base"), the network of terrorists associated with bin Laden, was behind the attacks, plans began to take shape for action against its camps in Afghanistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'We're At War' | 9/24/2001 | See Source »

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