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...think the eruption, if it occurs, will not be as serious as the one of 1980, since precursory signals are weaker and much of the mountain mass has blown away,” he said...

Author: By Katherine G. Chan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Follow News of Volcano | 10/5/2004 | See Source »

...soon to call Iraq a failure." But it is prewar Germany, in the years 1933-39, that gives many of us a frightening, disheartening parallel: How could a nation of well-educated, civilized, sophisticated people believe the rhetoric of a fanatic leader pretending their lives were threatened by obviously weaker neighbors, and follow him into a disastrous pre-emptive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 27, 2004 | 9/27/2004 | See Source »

...soon to call Iraq a failure." But it is prewar Germany, in the years 1933-39, that gives many of us a frightening, disheartening parallel: How could a nation of well-educated, civilized, sophisticated people believe the rhetoric of a fanatic leader pretending their lives were threatened by obviously weaker neighbors, and follow him into a disastrous pre-emptive war? Nicolas Gessner Paris If I were an American, I would vote for Bush. U.S. citizens should judge a President by evaluating what he has done in the past and also how he perceives the future. I admire a President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 9/26/2004 | See Source »

...going to be a smaller group of women within the people who have been offered tenure,” Kirby told The Crimson in June. “[But] we have had stronger and weaker years in recruitment of women at all levels of the Faculty...

Author: By Stephen M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Low Female Tenure Numbers Decried in Letter to Summers | 9/23/2004 | See Source »

...significant drag on Japanese economic activity." Although oil is not the only factor, Japan's robust spurt does seem to be flagging: GDP growth slowed to 1.7% in the second quarter from 6.6% in the first quarter, and recent data on inflation, joblessness and consumer spending were all weaker than economists expected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crude Awakenings | 9/6/2004 | See Source »

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