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Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1837 address to Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa Society bears serious consideration by today's Harvard students. The address is an encomium to the title-less man and an attack on the institutional one. It is praise for those famous men who become famous of their own doing, who arrive at their own conclusions, who stand on feet unbuttressed by typical modes of external recognition...
...Hussein emerged whole from last week's confrontation with the U.S., ready to live and cheat again. For that he can thank Kofi Annan. Three times the U.N. Secretary-General insinuated himself into the showdown. By the time he was done, he had saved Saddam from the most serious attack on his regime since the Gulf...
...sure to divulge all the drugs you're taking, including over-the-counter medications and herbal remedies. "Lots of people take aspirin these days as a preventive for heart attack," notes Dr. William Owens, president of the American Society of Anesthesiologists. "It's so much a part of their daily routine that they don't even think about it, but a single aspirin can prolong bleeding time significantly." Dietary supplements like DHEA or androstenedione can also interfere with the muscle relaxants that anesthesiologists use to make surgery possible...
Mellencamp had a heart attack in 1994, and as he tours for this record, the thought of his heart giving out is in the back of his mind. Still, he says, he's happier than he's ever been. The excesses of his youth, he claims, are gone. The twice-divorced Mellencamp is married again (to model Elaine Irwin), and he says he's through chasing women. He's gone from singing pop fluff to voicing, in mid-career, his concern for farmers, small towns and, of late, humankind in general...
...troops were in his neighborhood. But it's not a serious topic in the Pentagon tank, the top-secret meeting room in which the Joint Chiefs of Staff plot strategy. In fact, Marine General Anthony Zinni, who as chief of the U.S. Central Command would oversee any U.S.-led attack on Iraq, thinks it's a dubious scheme. "Saddam contained," he says, "is far better than an Iraq that implodes or explodes and ends up like an Afghanistan or a Somalia...