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Ibby has always said that “Harvard will survive” regardless of the particular individuals at its helm. But we know that places like Harvard survive-—and thrive —because of people like Ibby. We will miss...
...long run, bowing out prematurely would only compound America’s troubles in the war on terror. Strategically, it would cause irreparable harm to U.S. credibility. In addition, the environment likely to result from a failed Iraqi state is precisely the kind in which terrorist groups would thrive. What is needed, though, is not a continuation of the failed strategy of Secretary Rumsfeld’s Pentagon. Instead, we must continue to look for new methods to minimize casualties and damage. Rule of law must be emphasized above all to distinguish the new government from regimes of the past...
...recovery programs, and a few even have housing specifically for former substance abusers. Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, N.J., introduced the first recovery dorm in 1988. Last year an alumni reunion drew about 100 former residents, who credit the housing program with enabling them to succeed in school and thrive after graduation...
Luxury quotient: A near religious devotion to exotic ingredients has helped propel the brand. The success of its $290 lifting cream more than doubled the company's skin-care sales--making it one of the few makeup lines to thrive in that competitive market...
Scientists are as obsessed with the question of why the superold survive and thrive as Ponce de Leon was to find the Fountain of Youth. They want to understand why the Japanese islands of Okinawa are home to the world's largest population of centenarians, with almost 600 of its 1.3 million inhabitants living into their second century--many of them active and looking decades younger than their actual years. Like weekend visitors on the summer ferry to Martha's Vineyard, scientists and sociologists clog the boats to Sardinia and Nova Scotia, Canada, to see why those craggy locales harbor...