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...Office (SEO) should have made a better effort to fix these problems and lessen the burden on students who have had to put off purchasing books or paying bills. The SEO and the department of human resources have begun to address the problems, but these efforts are both too weak and too late...
Feeling feminine but not weak is a strong draw for Barbara Sorenson, 55, who teaches in Lincoln, Neb. She says belly dancing indulges her desire to wear jewelry, makeup and billowing fabrics, to be "female but also strong and feminist." Sorenson says the style she teaches, Tribal Fusion, is "a dance of attitude, strength, beauty and the celebration of a woman's spirit." (Despite the emphasis on femininity, some men do belly dancing but with sharper, less rolling moves...
...would be easy to find fault with the idea put forth by Ebon Y. Lee ’03 that even the search for peace is not always preferable to war (Column, “How the Weak Wage War,” Oct. 21), but there is at least some logic to this concept—sometimes peace is so elusive that war is the only viable option. This controversial idea holds little water when war is a potentially viable solution, but none at all if the conflict is not a winnable one. The government of Colombia is simply...
...Doctors Without Border, the International Red Cross and other humanitarian NGOs. Even within peacekeeping missions, political motivations dominate. The Balkans region received thousands of peacekeepers during its conflict due to Western nations’ domination of the Security Council. Conversely, the Security Council was unable to fully support a weak peace-keeping operation in Rwanda in April 1994, when the first reports of genocide reached U.N. ears. Ultimately, the U.N.’s lack of interest in Rwanda led the Security Council to ignore the problem until 800,000 people were killed in just over 100 days...
...Declined, and Kramnik achieved a position in which he had an "isolated queen pawn" - a foot soldier in the center of the board with no comrades on the two adjacent files. In the past, Kramnik has been a master at exploiting such positions. Although an isolated pawn can become weak in the endgame, because it cannot be defended by another pawn, it is often an asset in the middlegame when the open files adjacent to it can serve as staging ramps for a strong attack. But Kramnik never got an assault going. He shook his head unhappily and settled...