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...world. The military campaign has been a success, but it is far from clear that victory in Iraq will be a net positive in the larger war on terrorism or even, ultimately, that it will be seen as an American foreign-policy success. Indeed, two of the basic rationales for the war--that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and that the Iraqi people were eager to be liberated--have proved more complicated on the ground...
...women respond to friendship differently. While men are more likely to bond over a football game and talk about gadgets, women tend to seek intimate relationships in which they can reveal more of themselves. "A woman's inclination to get together and be supported by women friends is a basic process that has its roots in ancient neurocircuitry," says Shelley Taylor, professor of psychology at UCLA and author of The Tending Instinct: Women, Men and the Biology of Relationships (Times Books). She says having a close friend can be a life-enhancing experience in more ways than you might expect...
...reflect her more mature approach to the sport, Goldberg has broken down the game into its basic components and will try to improve off-field practice to translate into game-time execution...
...course proposed to cover the same material as Ec 10 and to use the same basic textbook but would move at a slightly faster pace to allow time at the end of the course for critical analysis of the basic assumptions of economics, Marglin said...
...virtual killing fields of the blockbuster video game “HALO,” blood sport is mingled with an odd form of good sportsmanship and basic concern for one’s fellow man. HALO, for those readers who are not males between the ages of 16 and 22, is a James Bond-style shoot-’em-up game for Microsoft’s Xbox video game system that is set in a distant galaxy at the center of which is a gaseous ring formation called “HALO.” Since its release...