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...quite a roll right now, deftly walking the leading-man middle ground like a cute date balancing on the side of a fountain. He can do savvy without resorting to “I’m-Slick” posturing (e.g., Pierce Brosnan, whose tie-adjusting characterizations all suffer from acute Bond Envy), and he can do sensitive, but without the moistened doe-eyes (e.g., Nicholas Cage, whose recent turns in Family Man and Captain Corelli’s Mandolin have proved that he can do insufferable mournfulness like no other). Looks-wise, he’s solid...
...patriotism is neither tie-dyed pacifism nor jingoistic bloodlust. Rather, it is a burning dedication to the ideals that American democracy embodies and an unflinching determination to defend those ideals through whatever means are most effective. If diplomacy fails—if the call to arms proves inescapable and we must kill to make the world free—patriotism does not prevent us from hanging our heads in sorrow. But it does forbid us from wringing our hands and walking away. And I think all those war-crazed lunatics who, like me, have lined up behind a president supposedly...
...Kenneth E. Reeves ’72 demanded that Harvard give the bin Laden endowment money to the victims of the terrorist attacks. The council’s ultimately voted for a resolution asking the University to donate $5 million to funds benefiting the victims, but did not explicitly tie the request to Harvard’s bin Laden connection...
...only are we suddenly confronted with the very real possibility of traffic tie-ups without fistfights, other signs of patience abound as well. Last week, for example, my commuter train was leaving Grand Central at about 7 p.m. It had been, for all aboard - and there were more of us than usual, since the traffic tie-ups and, more significantly, the Mayor?s ban on cars carrying only one passenger, had enticed some suburbanites into leaving their cars at home - a long day at the office. The train chugged desultorily through the darkness of Grand Central, then stalled; it didn...
...tie] would have been disappointing since it wasn’t the outcome that we wanted,” Westfall said. “They’re going to be tough to beat. I give them a lot of credit...