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...Israelis have justified this whole war as self-defense, so they could argue that they have a right to continue operations," Mohammed Chatah, the senior diplomatic advisor to the Lebanese prime minister, told TIME. "They need to withdraw." And Hizballah has warned that even if it agrees to refrain from rocket attacks into Israel, it will continue to fight any Israeli soldiers remaining on Lebanese soil...
...credible incentive, they're probably wasting their breath: Syria has withstood years of pressure and harangues from the U.S. - perhaps aware that the U.S. and Israel, knowing that the most likely alternative is the Muslim Brotherhood, actually want to keep the Ba'ath regime in place. Syria will refrain from confronting its more powerful enemies, but is unlikely to lift a finger to help them unless it can see in that course a road to end its isolation, and to a resumption of talks aimed at returning the Golan Heights, captured by Israel in 1967, to Syrian control...
...question my approach.Five years ago, former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 issued a now-famous letter to incoming students. Entitled “Slow Down: Getting More out of Harvard by Doing Less,” Lewis’ letter begged students to refrain from over-committing themselves, to focus on the quality, not quantity, of their college experiences, and to value their leisure time. Admittedly, his philosophy seems both logical and enviable. The barometer by which Lewis and I measure a successful college experience—a satisfying academic and extracurricular life, exploration...
...seriously concerned" by Pyongyang's July 5 test-firing of seven ballistic missiles, launches that drew international condemnation as a dangerous provocation. Even by Chinese standards, it was a mild response, particularly so because Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao had made a pointed and very public request that North Korea refrain from conducting the tests...
...pair began to argue, and eventually witnesses entered from an adjoining room to find the victim on her back on the bed and Thomas “strangling her with one hand.”In cases of alleged domestic abuse, The Crimson’s policy is to refrain from printing victims’ names.After witnesses yelled for Thomas to stop, he let go and the victim fell to the floor.As he turned to walk away, according to witnesses mentioned in the police report, “he suddenly lifted her and drove his knee into her chest...