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Fried’s late arrival wasn’t due to an injury, however. Instead, he had to wait until the hockey season came to a close, with a first round loss in the NCAA Tournament...
...guys in the field who are fighting this thing want to hear. And he is going to hammer it home and hammer it home and hammer it home." So when Bush was finally asked at the press conference whether the war would "last months, not weeks," he could barely wait for the question to be completed. "However long it takes to win," he shot back. Moments later he repeated the pledge, slowing his words for emphasis. "However. Long. It takes...
...north lies the Fort Bliss military reservation, spread across white sands. With winds kicking up the Chihuahuan Desert last week, the sky over El Paso was filled with irritating sand--much like that coating the troops in Iraq. Johnson, trapped in his own hell, doesn't notice. "The wait is extremely painful now," he says. "We just don't know what's going on." Until the International Red Cross confirms that his daughter is still alive and well, he will watch--and worry. --With reporting by Douglas Waller/Washington and Sally B. Donnelly/Doha
...meantime, we wait to see if SARS can adapt with the same deadly efficiency as influenza?and once a virus achieves airborne transmission from one person to another, the consequences might be as brutal as the 1918 flu that killed one in 60 of all the people on earth. Perhaps if we knew that SARS had come from another species, we could identify how it had changed and we could design drugs or vaccines to tackle it. By the time we had produced them, however, the disease would already have done its deadly damage. Once again, we find ourselves...
...what does that mean for everything else? Will Gross and his successors remember that cable television and better shuttle service are top student priorities? Will they care about keycard access, our pitiful MAC, and student group office space? It seems all too likely that, instead, we will have to wait two years for the curricular review to end before the new dean starts thinking about these issues before we can address any of them. Worse yet, these concerns will probably be delegated to some other less powerful Dean who has no control over the purse strings...