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...many students lament that they never get a chance to make the arduous ten minute journey into Boston but spend hours playing Snood, chatting banally on Instant Messenger or searching the Internet for virtual girls when they should out be looking for real dates? E-mail seems as vital to Harvard students’ existence as Vitamin C. Administrators should arrest these worrying trends, not encourage them...
...this unique responsibility as the nation’s science adviser on matters of health,” Fineberg said. “My aim is to make it a vital player in the solution of the nation’s health problems...
...object of Bush's U.N. speech is, presumably, to enlist active, enthusiastic support from allies whose help will be vital to destroy al Qaeda. This puts the U.S. in the unusual position of actually needing not just the passive consent, but the active assistance from Arab and Muslim countries, and the developing world in general. The Europeans, Japan, Canada and Australia may be able to help shoulder most of the military needs of a protracted campaign in Afghanistan, but combating bin Laden's own counterattacks requires the total engagement of the law enforcement and intelligence communities of the countries...
...country did not insist on the freedom of association, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) might have met an untimely demise. In 1958, when Alabama officials were attempting to oust and undermine the NAACP, the U.S. Supreme Court recognized that the freedom of association was vital to their survival. Without this principle of freedom, we might not have the great progress the civil rights movement achieved to oust racism and institutional inequalities in our country...
...Rule 3: Watch Your Back There may be one compelling reason to scale back air strikes: doing so could help contain anti-American unrest in Pakistan, a war aim that will become vital as the thrust of the campaign shifts to ground operations by special forces. U.S. commandos staging from bases in Pakistani territory have already faced mortal danger. When two Chinook helicopters landed at the Panjgur airport in southern Pakistan after retrieving a downed U.S. chopper, aviation sources tell TIME, they were met with a swarm of bullets from pro-Taliban, Pakistani irregulars who were guarding the airport...