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...think it was inevitable that one year Harvard would not have a Rhodes scholar. I wouldn't read any great significance into this," said Elliot F. Gerson '74, American Secretary of the Rhodes Scholarship Trust...
When we're on campus, our school pride has few opportunities to surface. We certainly feel it at the Game, amidst raucous chants of "safe-ty school." We might get a sense of it when we hear about annual college rankings or read about prizes won by students or faculty members. But most days, we forget about the Harvard part of our identities, because all of us have it. It isn't until we leave campus that we recognize how our Harvard affiliation dominates the way we are perceived by others...
...International Living, which produces a newsletter on living abroad, advises asking yourself such questions as: What kind of people do I like and what kind of weather? How important is it that I can easily return to my family or doctors? To find out what life is like, read local newspapers or those produced for expats. As more Americans retire abroad, an increasing number of books and websites are available to provide answers (see box). The Internet has simplified moving abroad, since not only can you chat with expats online; once away, you can manage your investments and pay bills...
Last week Bush's aides felt upbeat, though not quite cocky, about Friday's high-court arguments. "Ted Olson himself urged us not to try to read into the mood of the Justices," says Bush spokesman Dan Bartlett. But even if they lose with the high court, the Bushies believe they're doing very well indeed in the Florida courts. The end of last week brought strong evidence for that proposition. On Friday the Florida Supreme Court refused to order both immediate hand counts of disputed ballots and the revote in Palm Beach County sought by voters confused...
...majority seemed to feel that it would be harmful to presidential legitimacy to allow the hand count to continue and perhaps undermine the President-elect - read Bush. The dissenting opinion essentially said, Let the recount continue so that we at least have the numbers in case we decide the Florida Supreme Court was right. What's the harm? they wondered. The majority seemed to believe the harm was irreparable...