Orchesis wows crowd, see p. 3 November 23, 2004
Wilson College
Procrastination, see p. 5
Should you go watch “Little Black Book?” See p. 6
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania
Operation Christmas Child, See p. 8 Vol. 36, No. 3
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Clinton dedicates presidential center with celebrities and presidents David Hammer Associated Press Writer LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (AP) _ To Bill Clinton, the new presidential library jutting over the Arkansas River represents what he tried to do in the White House _ build bridges. To the average admirers who headed there Friday, the main attraction was the humor and humanity it displayed. The building was dedicated at a gala Thursday, and on Friday morning, members of the public not on the guest list the day before were able to walk up and buy tickets. Beverly Prather of Daytona Beach, Florida, and Sue Ellen Browning of Auburn, Kentucky, were among the first to get a look at the inside. They said they particularly liked the focus on Clinton’s humanity in the museum exhibits. The women said the largest crowds of people Friday gathered around pictures of the Clintons dressed up at Halloween parties and videos of their comedy spoofs.
“He seemed so natural. At the videos, everybody was laughing. That’s where the crowds stopped,” Prather said. The 27-acre (11-hectare) William J. Clinton Presidential Center complex opened Thursday, with a crowd of roughly 28,000 huddling in a cold, driving rain. President George W. Bush was on hand, as was his father and former President Jimmy Carter. Former President Gerald Ford, who is 91, could not attend. Before Clinton spoke, rock stars Bono and The Edge of the band U2 performed three songs. The festivities started with a poetry reading by Rita Dove, whom Clinton made the first black woman U.S. poet laureate. Hollywood was represented by the likes of Robin Williams and Kevin Spacey. Clinton, with the $165 million (euro127 million) glass-and-steel museum as a backdrop, talked pointedly about the architectural allusion to his desire during his eight years in the Oval office to build a “bridge to the 21st century.”
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“What it is to me is a symbol of not only what I tried to do but what I want to do with the rest of my life, building bridges from yesterday to tomorrow, building bridges across racial and religious and ethnic and income and political divides,” said Clinton, 58, much thinner as a result of heart-bypass surgery in early September. Da Hyun Min
See Clinton, p. 3
Muhibbah members take a well-deserved break to pose for the camera. From left to right: Yun Kyung Heo, Biva Chapagain, Hye Kyung Jeon and Kyung Joo Cha, all of the class of 2008. The Muhibbah Dinner was November 6 in the Jenson Dining Hall.
Powell admits preference for diplomacy over force Barry Schweid Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) _ In a candid interview with his time in office running out, Secretary of State Colin Powell is acknowledging differences with others in the Bush administration and suggesting that the disputes centered on his preference for diplomacy over force to resolve problems. But Powell steadfastly resisted being designated a dove by a Chilean television interviewer. “I never liked these titles,” he said. But the secretary then went on to describe his long-held inclination, through several administrations, “of analyzing situations carefully to see if military force is appropriate.”
“If it is appropriate, we should force,” Powell said in the interview he gave to Chile’s TVN on Thursday in Santiago during an economic conference of Pacific nations. “But if we can avoid the use of military force with diplomacy, through a political action, that is what we should try to do, and that is what President Bush tried to do,” Powell said. “I have supported him in that effort,” Powell said. The retired four-star general noted he had been involved in many combat operations in his lifetime. Announcement of Powell’s resignation Monday and Bush’s naming of his hard-line national
security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, as the next secretary of state, revived recollections of Powell’s moderate leanings in contrast to such hawks as Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld. Powell, in the interview, did not describe any of the disputes. Nor did he say specifically with whom he disagreed. “We have differences,” he said. But Powell then ticked off areas where senior advisers were in accord, such as the expansion of the NATO alliance.
See Powell, p. 5