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...proving to be the Great Polarizer. Reagan and then Bill Clinton ushered in the modern age of the acrimoniously divided electorate, but George Bush has cleaved the nation into two tenaciously opposed camps even more than his predecessors. He is the man about whom Americans feel little ambivalence. People tend to love him or hate him without any complicating shades of gray. Shout "George Bush" in a crowded theater, and people dive into two trenches. A new TIME/CNN poll shows that Americans are almost equally divided in their support for President Bush, with 47% suggesting that they are likely...
...says he stakes out prospective targets for a week before ordering a hit. "Most rarely leave their house," says Aws. "But after a few days, they may come to the gate to talk to friends or neighbors." Jasim says former regime officials tend to gather in groups, either to try to reorganize or simply because few have anything else to do. "You find a lot of Baathists in the same place at the same time," he says. "It's getting easier to kill them." Jasim says his group has compiled a hit list of "hundreds" of individuals from documents looted...
...Weisses so vulnerable to Alzheimer's? One reason is that they tend to live long lives; advanced age is a major risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's. But scientists are convinced that defective genes are also involved. Four have already been located--one known as ApoE has been linked to late-onset Alzheimer's--and last week several new mutations on a gene associated with the much rarer early-onset Alzheimer's were tentatively identified, but it's clear that there are more genes to be found. That's why the National Institute on Aging (NIA) began last fall...
...going to war against Iraq without a U.N. mandate, isn't it? People may disagree on the relative merits of these cases - a Parisian or Berliner might point out that the stability pact has been plain bad fiscal policy, just as a Washingtonian might argue that U.N. mandates tend to be too little, too late. But in both cases, the rules are enshrined in international covenants, and steamrollering them showed that the same sort of hauteur is alive and well in all three capitals. Power talks, and so does the national interest; this is one of the oldest truths...
...alien holiday for me. While being thankful that our lives aren’t more grim than they are seems like an excellent idea, celebrating that fact actually feels a little strange. After all, anyone who has read my columns over the past 15 months will understand that I tend to focus on the negative—and, moreover, must be convinced that I think Harvard is a simply dreadful place to go to college. During that time my pieces have consistently criticized the University, arguing that the curriculum is outdated, the students are so ambitious that they constantly teeter...