Word: pointing
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Rubin's remarks do touch on one point of substance, and that is the frequency and regularity with which a capella concerts are held in Sanders Theater. It does seem odd that one genre of student activity would dominate Sanders, which in terms of size and acoustics is undeniably the best performance space at Harvard. There is, however, a simple reason for this...
...United States faces a critical turning point in the short history of the Mideast crisis. On Thursday, as the first of 200,000 additional troops called into service by President Bush three weeks ago began arriving in Saudi Arabia, the United Nations Security Council passed by a vote of 12 to two a resolution authorizing "member states cooperating with the government of Kuwait...to use all necessary means" to enforce the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait after January 15. It was a gesture of unanimity unprecedented in the Council's 45-year history...
Baker noted on Friday that the intention of the resolution was to "bring about a peaceful resolution." It is widely speculated that the point of the resolution is to convince Iraq that the threat of multilateral attack is so tangible that withdrawal is the only viable option...
...armed intervention is never justified under UN principles if a peaceful alternative is available. It is on this point that any American or other ally faces its strongest challenge. Can the various terms of the Security Council's earlier resolutions--complete withdrawal from Kuwait, etc.--be achieved without resort to military confrontation? If the answer is yes, then the United States has no business launching an attack...
...time to make the plays and win the game for the Crimson came with eight minutes left. At that point, evidently fed up with the game's slow pace, Brandeis and Harvard decided to make garbage time come early Fifteen of the last 21 points were scored on free throws--13 by Harvard...