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Rose is waiting again now, the caution of others thrust upon him. The caution of coaches and doctors and trainers...
...been said that the first casualty of war is truth, but truth often dies long before the war begins. This is especially the case when war is painstakingly engineered by our leaders, rather than thrust upon them by the Forces of Evil. Earlier this week, Iraq took a bold step to avoid military conflict by allowing weapons inspectors immediate and unconditional access; but with enough duplicity President Bush should be back on the road to war in no time...
Confronted by the specter of Saddam Hussein, British Prime Minister Tony Blair thrust his country into an uncharacteristically conspicuous role: he looked around, sensed danger and stepped up to the plate, calling for preemptive military action against the Iraqi dictator. Now he shares said plate with an only slightly less lonely George W. Bush - and they may be standing there, alone together, for a very long time. For this act of brave solidarity (or political suicide), Tony Blair is our Person of the Week...
...selection, is gone, as are former captain Ryan FitzGerald ’02, Phil Scherrer ’02 and Kyle Sims ’02. Graduation decimated a unit that held opposing rushers to 3.3 yards per carry on the ground, meaning that four newcomers will be thrust to the forefront...
...interior spaces, an expert at setting traps for sunlight. An addition he designed a few years ago for the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston contains some of the most satisfying gallery spaces in the U.S.--a succession of rooms lighted gently from above by light boxes that thrust up from the museum's roof to catch the sun. In his Los Angeles church, light is filtered through windows made of thin sheets of semitransparent alabaster. When the light falls across the great central space and careens around the angled walls, it provides exactly the great climax that his long...