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...instance, in March of 2005, President Bush decided to offer economic incentives including membership in the World Trade Organization to Iran if they agreed to abandon their desire for nuclear power. A year later, after Iran had successfully enriched uranium, the United States, working multilaterally with Britain and France, threatened Iran with harsher actions if they failed to suspend their uranium enrichment. Then, only a few weeks later, the U.S. retracted the stick and presented the carrot offering to engage in direct talks with Iran if it agreed to abandon its uranium enrichment program...
...Reading Period. Brain waves ebb and flow, intellectual juices churn, and students abandon happiness and societal notions of hygiene to write essays and study for exams. Where better to have this scholarly experience than Lamont Library, where during Reading Period, students tend to camp out for days at a time...
Zeke Mazur thinks that his wife and co-director, Aleksandra Makarova, a graduate student in Linguistics, should abandon her studies altogether to pursue her love for filmmaking. The two submitted a short scholarly film entitled “The Origins of Evil in Valentinian Agnosticism,” which explores one interpretation of “how worldly evil derived from the use of divine suffering...
...mouse. Video games very often have violent and explicit content. Priests, like other human beings, live in a world where sex is ubiquitous. It is painful for me to learn of the acts of some priests, but the sins of a few cannot be the reason to abandon the church and forget what Christ has preached. Carlos Barcia, MURCIA, SPAIN...
...arrests have forced the protesters to abandon their sit-in in the latest chapter in Hawaii's months-long "furlough Fridays" saga. Nearly 170,000 students statewide have been affected since the program began last October. There are four more Friday closures planned before the school year ends in May. "While we're disappointed, we take away a victory - that the eyes of the world were focused on the failure of furloughs," says protester Clare Hanusz. "We're disgusted with the governor and her leadership, and we'll be focusing our efforts elsewhere. That doesn't mean...