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Minutes until Mother Harvard gently but insistently pushes the class of 2003 across the threshold of Johnston Gate thus welcoming soon-to-be grads to a lifetime of, well, life in the real world...
...coincidence that “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” begins with a threshold experience—Fred Rogers opens the door, crosses over into another domain, and transforms himself through costume change. In the classics of children’s literature, the transition from reality to fantasy is often clearly marked by a gate, a door or a window. You reach Neverland by exiting through the window. In the film version of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy has to open a door in order to reach Oz. Mary Lennox turns a key, pushes a gate...
...doesn’t take more than a rudimentary understanding of morality to realize that this type of theft is wrong, but apparently the Secret Service—the branch of the Treasury Department responsible for investigating counterfeiting and fraud—doesn’t possess even this threshold understanding. Instead of punishing or condemning these gluttons, our government treats them like victims...
...enemies a new and more lethal way to fight and spotlighted how a rogue state--namely Iraq--with the resources to develop weapons of mass destruction might employ them. The abiding conviction that tyrants and terrorists would surely combine forces to attack America carried the Administration across a threshold...
...many of America's friends balking? The antiwar sentiment among Washington's presumed allies reflects a deep reservoir of misgiving that stretches from immediate doubts to long-term philosophical differences--from disagreement over the purpose of inspections and the threshold of war to worries that the U.S. doesn't really care if it has allies. Of course, Bush can count on loyal friends like the leaders of Spain, Italy, Poland and Britain to stand by his side, despite the disapproval of their citizens. And some of the vocal opponents, like France and Russia, have lucrative commercial or financial ties with...