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...parables such as those on the Twilight Zone, which, by the way, returns this fall on UPN, hosted by Forrest Whitaker.) If a writer turned Beene's bomb-shelter scene into a bioterror scare in a sitcom set in the present, it wouldn't make it past the first-draft stage at a major network. Perhaps that's the hidden value of cultural nostalgia. It hints that the past was not better but worse than today, allowing us to exorcise forbidden thoughts about the present. Why do we believe the past was a happier, safer place than today? Maybe simply...
...pliancy, French diplomats pushed a plan to send the U.N.'s inspection team into Iraq under Security Council Resolution 1284, a somewhat watered-down version of inspection rules passed in 1999 after Saddam sent the eight-year-old inspections program packing. Washington is leaning hard on the U.N. to draft aggressive new language laying out Saddam's specific violations, far-reaching requirements to fix them and the consequences if he fails. The Administration has lobbied vigorously to put all that in a single resolution that goes on to authorize use of military force if Saddam impedes the inspectors' work...
...first thing they’re hit with is a discussion about Social Security or the draft,” Warren says of the initiative to create policy groups. “Then, logically, they can go set up events so anyone else can come. Right now we’re missing that first door...
...White House plans to send Congress a draft resolution Thursday authorizing an attack on Iraq if the President concludes that current diplomatic efforts won't satisfy U.S. demands on Baghdad's weapons. This follows Monday's offer by Iraq to allow new UN weapons inspections that has once again split the veto-wielding permanent members of the UN security council - pitting the U.S. and Britain against France, Russia and China - and made UN authorization of a U.S. military strike unlikely any time soon...
...great move on Dean Lewis’ part because Dean Avery has been very supportive of diversity at Harvard,” said Ethan Y. Yeh ’03, who served as secretary of the Foundation’s Student Advisory Committee when that group helped to draft the report...