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...majority correctly faults the Bush administration for coddling Saddam Hussein in the years--even days--leading up to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. We congratulate them on their miraculous hindsight. But Bush's error was one of judgement, not of intention. By maintaining friendly ties with Iraq, he had hoped to tame Hussein's aggressiveness. A fatal miscalculation, we agree, but an understandable one given the complicated history of the region...
...editing error, an article in yesterday's Crimson ("Looking for Shelter," page 3) misrepresented the views of City Councillor Alice K. Wolf. Wolf said the city council was deciding whether the CASPAR shelter was a fair burden for the neighborhood...
...staff's second and larger error is their confusion of class elitism with educational elitism. A parent's or student's choice of private over public school is not, as they cynically assume, motivated solely or mainly by snobbery. Leaving aside the most extreme case--kids wanting to leave ghetto schools because of violence--there are many valid reasons why a public school would be wrong for a certain child...
...trust?" George Bush intones with moral indignation and grammatical error. It's his way of invoking the so-called "character" issue, to bring up a broad range of supposed flaws in Gov. Bill Clinton's public and private behavior...
CREDIT: From a telephone poll of 1,400 American adults taken for TIME/CNN on Sept. 22-24 by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman. Sampling error is plus or minus...