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While the Aztek was well engineered and efficient to produce, design was relegated to the backseat. "There wasn't anyone who would take responsibility or threaten to quit over his principles," says a GM design executive. Lutz, however, as friend and foe agree, is just that kind...
...tradition for year-end movies, and this year the season of official good feeling is refracted in Oscar-envious films about troubled folks. A schizophrenic mathematician, a slow-witted father, an amnesiac writer, a disfigured playboy, unhappy families in Manhattan and on an English estate--all these sad souls threaten to turn the holiday film scene into a Yuletide reunion at Bellevue. But wait. Most of these tales are ultimately journeys to spiritual health. And if you need a dose of old-movie magic--reach for the Ring. THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING...
Sending aid or promising goodies hasn't yet convinced any of the Muslim nations of our love for them [THE WAR, Nov. 26]. Nor will it. Dropping or threatening to drop nuclear bombs won't deter a single terrorist anywhere. Those who threaten the U.S. have nothing to lose and no fear of death. The only ex-terrorist is a dead terrorist. The only friendly Muslim nation is one that doesn't raise a significant clamor for America's demise. We cannot do anything to change this. We are in a war that the U.S. can neither win nor lose...
...from the treaty also means the administration is free to pursue the construction of a missile defense shield, one of its long-term goals and expressly prohibited by the ABM treaty. The shield, which could cost upwards of $80 billion, is not, Bush maintains, meant to in any way threaten Russia or any other "big power," but is rather meant to deter missile attacks from rogue nations - a possibility the administration considers more likely in the post-9/11 world...
...Houses already accommodate outsiders who meet for academic and extracurricular activities; they are also effective at establishing community through intramural sports, House e-mail lists, and House-sponsored social events. Extending access by an hour and a half late at night, when House life is least active, would not threaten House communities...