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...This is the second article in a series examining student groups at Harvard. Tomorrow: Two years after turmoil, where does the IOP go from here...
...moon is very cost-intensive," says Laurie, "so the key is finding ways that existing business translates effectively to the moon." The lack of a lunar atmosphere, for example, would add thousands of years to the life of data storage. And who knows? With earth-bound economic institutions in turmoil, even if we mess this planet up maybe someday we can still find an IKEA on the moon. THE BOURSE Bear market bargain Hamleys, the British toy-retailing institution, used the economic downturn to go bargain shopping, buying defunct English Teddy Bear Co. for $1.1 million. Disastrous Insurance Europe...
...fact, a foreign policy shaped by the war on terrorism would serve America poorly. The world is full of problems that need American resourcefulness: the rise of China, the fall of Japan, Europe's crisis of self-confidence, economic turmoil in Latin America. Policies designed to combat terrorism have nothing to offer such cases, yet any one of them may have more of an impact on our future than Sept. 11. If the U.S. takes terrorism as a simple guide to complex situations, it will often fall into error. It is, for example, natural for Americans to sympathize with Israelis...
...fact, a foreign policy shaped by the war on terrorism would serve America poorly. The world is full of problems that need American resourcefulness: the rise of China, the fall of Japan, Europe's crisis of self-confidence, economic turmoil in Latin America. Policies designed to combat terrorism have nothing to offer such cases, yet any one of them may have more of an impact on our future than Sept. 11. If the U.S. takes terrorism as a simple guide to complex situations, it will often fall into error. It is, for example, natural for Americans to sympathize with Israelis...
...clicked away, the Chicks retreated to their Texas homes last year to make music with their own money and at their own pace. They aren't precious about their songs (says Maines: "I'll never write as well as Sheryl Crow or Patty Griffin; I don't have the turmoil in my life"). But while strumming away in one another's living rooms, they talked about entering a new phase of life, with husbands and kids (Maines has a son, 1; Robison is seven months pregnant) and adult responsibilities. The songs they wrote and other writers' songs they chose...