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...response, I would answer: it's everywhere but among undergraduates. And I would further postulate that the reason for this is due to the terrible single-mindedness of College students, who tend to focus inward much more than outward. In order to explain why, let me first dispel two common myths about "the free flow of discourse at Harvard." The first commonly propounded myth is that the undergraduate community constitutes a reflection of the Harvard as a whole; that if we're not observing "open dialogue" about the Middle East among our peers, then it's not happening on campus...
...that killed some 3 million of their people, and which they blame entirely on the U.S. But neither side is inclined to allow the past to deny the possibilities of the present and the future: the President will raise the issue of accounting for the MIAs, but won't let that block the relationship; rather than an apology, the Vietnamese will press for concrete help in addressing the legacy of the war, such as unexploded mines and the effects of Agent Orange...
...Warren Christopher has a proposal of his own; shockingly enough, it involves lawyers. The former secretary of state and Gore surrogate-in-chief emerged Wednesday just before noon to accuse Katherine Harris of stalling for time and to try to claim the "let's end this" mantle for the Democrats...
...Christopher wants to let the Florida Supreme Court handle all election-related lawsuits and ask it to rule "whether hand counts now ongoing are appropriate under Florida law, and if so, what is the deadline for their completions." Christopher is also looking for a statewide standardization of all matters "chad." But his main point may have been to say that Harris's way of doing things, in lower courts, "would serve only to delay once again the counting of the votes...
...heavenly impresarios decided to let the media sensations go dark for a while? The only thing in prospect after Elian was a presidential campaign, with an uninteresting cast of characters - at least after Alan Keyes and John McCain left the show. The suspense ended with Super Tuesday. We had our candidates. Neither possessed the slightest star quality. One of them - or so we thought - would be president. We turned our attention to an intuition that floated up from somewhere in the subconscious, a suspicion that the next big show might be a gaudily dangerous one, a financial collapse or something...