Word: offers
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...Jews and Harvard students have deemed the conflict and particularly the occupation important enough to consider it in its totality--its origins, its moral and social implications for allparties involved, as well as its alternatives. These people are not looking to justify or rationalize particular acts, but rather to offer constructive criticism based not on generalizations, but on understanding and knowledge...
...does not take much to remain in a safe moral highground, write an occasional letter to the editor lamenting the "loss of beautiful Jewish minds and souls," and offer prayers for the moral state of the Israeli, Diaspora and Harvard Jewish communities...
...demon for detail, Burrough weaves suspense into his tales of high finance and intrigue. "I try to write somewhat the way a good murder mystery is written," he explains. "My stories sometimes read as if ((LBO king)) Henry Kravis were approaching with an ax instead of a buyout offer." Burrough may have hit the peak of fascination with 1980s whodunits. As the 1990s wear on, his agent Andrew Wylie says with literary disdain, readers are likely to become more interested in advice books on "how to stave off disaster...
...actuality" to the notion of a conference. Meeting with Saddam in Baghdad two weeks ago, Soviet envoy Yevgeni Primakov dangled the possibility of a Middle East conference -- with both Soviet and U.S. participation -- if the Iraqi leader left Kuwait. Though there was no evidence whatsoever that Moscow's offer had Washington's blessing, Primakov is a trusted confidant of Mikhail Gorbachev's and planned last week to brief Bush on his Iraqi visit...
There is little doubt that an attack on Iraq without further provocation from Saddam will erode U.S. support in the Middle East. The Arab League is already split down the middle, with at least nine of its members, including some that offer lip service to the U.N. resolutions, giving overt backing to Iraq. Iran is, at best, equivocal. Saddam tries to build on this support with appeals based on brotherhood, religion and the Palestinian cause. It is interesting to note that he has never criticized his Syrian brothers for sending forces to Saudi Arabia, nor has he built up troops...