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...junior high, it was carpentry-"I liked to build stuff"-but when he realized that houses would be too small, he scaled up his plans, and decided to be a real-estate developer, a "Donald Trump with a sense of the absurd...

Author: By Matthew F. Quirk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Spectacular Mr. Novak | 5/3/2001 | See Source »

...this is not post-Cold War thinking, as President Bush insists; it's Cold War thinking. A missile shield makes sense as a trump-card if you?re anticipating a large-scale exchange of missiles with a rival nuclear power. But in a post-Cold War world in which, as President Bush insists, the primary threat to the U.S. comes from "rogue states" engaged in regional conflicts with Washington or its allies, it's hard to imagine why an enemy looking to land a weapon of mass destruction on U.S. soil would choose an ICBM as his delivery system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Missile Defense: A High-Tech Maginot Line? | 5/1/2001 | See Source »

Miss Israel with the faces of Yitzhak Rabin, Yasser Arafat and Bill Clinton. Her 1999 effort--worn by the first Arab Miss Israel--featured a Star of David. The heavy-duty 2001 creation could also keep Miss Israel safe from the roving eye of pageant director Donald Trump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 30, 2001 | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

...claims universities cannot and must not be democracies. As the greatest number of people are students spending the shortest amount of time here, their desires must be seen in that light, and permanence—tenure, a long degree program, a long record as an employee—must trump the energetic whim of the student body...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: History and Change at Harvard | 4/27/2001 | See Source »

...when the protesters are permitted to chant outside this residential dorm until after midnight, preventing students from studying, relaxing or sleeping. Wasn’t this a case of disturbing the peace? Why did the protestors’ “right” to go unmolested and unaccountable trump my students’ right to peace and quiet? Why weren’t the protestors dispersed by the police...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 4/20/2001 | See Source »

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