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...Baghdad will soon be crushed by what can only be called the benevolent fist of the American Empire. But if the Sept. 11 attacks were the cause for these wars, they should not be made the justification. I hope that the orations delivered over the dead today self-consciously avoid linking...
Although she initially tried to avoid thinking of the attacks, now she remembers them regularly and will attend both the Harvard and Cambridge ceremonies today. Lu said she regrets that the area will not hold an all-night vigil similar to one that will take place in New York...
...even if he can't shame them into action, President Bush may well manage to scare them - his "if Iraq wants to avoid war" mantra was an unmistakable warning that if the UN can't stop Saddam's scofflaw pursuit of weapons of mass destruction, Washington is more than ready to do so alone. And what the European and Arab allies want more than anything else is to avoid a war whose consequences they fear will be more devastating than any threat posed by Saddam right now. It is fear of what the U.S. may do that has galvanized France...
...answer? The Administration plans to call for a toughly worded Security Council resolution setting an ultimatum for the return of UN weapons inspectors to Iraq, and authorizing the use of force in response if Baghdad fails to comply. But if Saddam submits to inspection in order to avoid war, he potentially buys himself time and muddies the waters of legitimacy even if he plans to resume his cat-and-mouse game with inspectors. This is precisely the scenario Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and Vice President Cheney have been determined to avoid. Yet to insist, as they have done, that inspections...
...which may explain why the faculty vote to adopt the new rule was “hurried through” last spring, without discussion, in the middle of exams, and in a manner that some faculty described as suspicious. Harvard also knows that requiring corroboration empowers the College to avoid the issue altogether in most sexual misconduct cases. Requiring corroboration may be the quickest and simplest solution, but it is a poor excuse for a meaningful sexual assault policy. Until the rule is abolished, Harvard will have the ignoble distinction of turning its back on the well-being...