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...newspapers, but the terror attacks have sent everyone on the foreign policy squad back to his or her strongest position and turned the group into a team. The need to build a coalition has vindicated Secretary of State Colin Powell, whose taste for multilateral solutions had made him the odd man out among the Bushies. The need for daily decision making has restored Vice President Dick Cheney to his favorite role, as unseen foreign policy adviser to the President. The need to wage war has reinvigorated Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who had been fighting a losing battle with his military...
When Ruggiero’s teammate and former Princeton rival Andrea Kilbourne broke free on an odd-man rush late in the game, it was the 5’9, 190-pound Ruggiero who rushed down the right wing and provided the finish, one of several impressive displays in the U.S. National Team’s 16-0 rout of the ECAC East...
...There are an awful lot of extremely talented people of Jewish faith in academia and, you know, it would be odd if we did not have a Jewish president,” Bok said...
...particularly out of the ordinary about it—except if you count the Barnes & Noble masquerading as the Coop, or the Dunkin Donuts that doubles as the Eliot Street Café, or the Warburton’s Café that’s really Au Bon Pain. The odd thing about Cambridge is how subtle its oddness really is. Start with the employees at the Coop. I once had a cashier who performed the entire check-out process in complete silence while staring straight at me, examined my Coop card for five minutes and read the back jacket...
...have neighbors in Livingston, Mont., who have geared up for every potential Armageddon since the Cuban missile crisis. From the cold war to the Gulf War to Y2K (how quaint it seems now, that odd abbreviation), a certain vocal minority hereabouts has been hoarding ammunition, boiling water and stockpiling gold coins in hopes of riding out some vast calamity that will devastate the unprepared while leaving savvy country folk untouched. That was the vision, at least, until last month, when the attacks on New York City and Washington proved to all but the most stubborn of mountain dwellers that that...