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...your name, address, license plate number and children's names have appeared on a web site called "The Nuremberg Files." This "wanted" list has posted the names of other doctors, three of whom have been killed by anti-abortion activists. The federal agents advise you to buy a bulletproof vest and equip your office with bulletproof glass. You take the advice, and call a lawyer, who deconstructs the situation this way: Does the web site in question pose an actual threat, or is it merely an exercise in First Amendment rights...
...trained for the Tract Bombers, the Service's most elite force. After a bruising half-day journey to get to the central Chinese city, the 51-year-old paramedic tucked her fair hair under a hat and crammed 300 religious pamphlets into the secret pockets of a custom-made vest. Then, from near midnight to the first glimmering of dawn, she and a posse of evangelists wandered down alleys in small-town China, stuffing mailboxes, bicycle baskets and window sills with their religious contraband. "When the people woke up the next morning," she says, "there was Jesus everywhere...
Maya ended up receiving acceptance letters from Yale, Harvard, Princeton, everywhere. But when Charles Vest, the president of MIT, called her to see if she had any questions, the answers worried her. "What attracted me to MIT was their school of architecture, but I thought that outside of my architecture classes, I would be very unhappy academically," she says. "I was looking at what my freshman year schedule would be...it would be, like, chemistry, chemistry, biology, biology, physics, physics, calculus...writing class...
...President Charles M. Vest, a friend of Rudenstine's who lunches with the departing president three times a term, called the decision to create the provost's position "radical...
...made people sit up and take notice," Vest said...