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...University’s, but today, he says, their relationship is less symbiotic than it once was.BUYING INTO THE MARKETWhen Marshall, who grew up in nearby Lynn, Mass., first came to Harvard Square in 1970, it was filled with orange Hare Krishna robes and student protests against the Vietnam War, he says. Vendors gathered in front of the Holyoke Center, selling handmade jewelry and other artifacts of a counterculture zeitgeist.Marshall says he decided to sell books because he didn’t want to apply for a vendor’s license. “The First Amendment...
...parents probably became suspicious about possible exposure to the virus before the disease could take hold, and whisked the boys to hospital. Such vigilance may hold the key to survival. Swedish researchers reported in the American Medical Association journal Archives of Internal Medicine that 650-750 people in northwest Vietnam admitted suffering flu-like illnesses after handling sick or dead chickens. While virologists say the study did not use blood tests to confirm the presence of h5n1, they think it could mean that some people may carry bird flu without getting sick. "It suggests more cases are not being picked...
...outside the U.S. but from within it, from American voters who pay for the security of others without ever having been asked explicitly to do so. Americans, we should remember, are capable of getting tired of being the world's cops. They did so in the late 1970s, after Vietnam, and the bloody muddle of Iraq may weary them of playing this role once again. That would please those who would like to see Gulliver bound, but they might be careful of what they wish for. In the years after Vietnam, the Soviet Union, uncontained, went adventuring in Angola, Ethiopia...
...sick of the U.S.'s spending our money and our young people's lives for political ideals [Dec. 5]. What would Americans do if Saddam Hussein or any other world leader believed that Bush was evil and decided to trump up charges to end his term? I'm a Vietnam veteran, and if that happened, I would start making some car bombs. What right do we have to police the world? Iraq is an Arab problem and should be solved by the Arab world. How about sending more politicians into combat? Charles Delling Waterford, Michigan...
...last time the bell was rung by hand was Nov. 11, in memory of Harvard students who died in Korea and Vietnam...