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...that anything goes in protecting citizens seems to abandon law altogether,” he said...
...nevertheless insisting that it will be impossible to meet the Feb. 28 deadline because he doesn't believe there is enough trust between the two communities. Papadopoulos' victory may have strengthened the Turkish Cypriot leader's resolve. "As long as Papadopoulos does not draw himself a realistic plan and abandon his imaginary solutions, there is no reason to continue with this dead-end process," Denktash said after the election results. Papadopoulos is not an obvious peacemaker. He studied law in Britain and became a successful lawyer and politician, after having fought with EOKA, Cyprus' nationalist guerrilla movement, against British troops...
...Faculty Council killed a student-backed proposal yesterday to extend the deadline for dropping courses, arguing that an extension would encourage students to abandon classes in which they fear they will do poorly...
...great a temptation,” Adams House Master Sean Palfrey, another member of the working group, told The Crimson last year. And while the University’s goal is to educate students—not entertain them—it is unlikely that students will abandon their studies or their house communities to become zombies in front of computer screens. Harvard students—like all undergraduates—need time to relax with some form of entertainment. They already have televisions in their rooms for video games, movies and—if they can get good reception?...
...sense of inevitability about war grows, the region's leaders have begun to abandon their fellow head of state. Normally cautious Saudi Arabia has been publicly brandishing a knife at Saddam, pushing an initiative that could provide him an escape--voluntary exile--but is aimed more at provoking his overthrow by promising potential coupmakers amnesty from war-crimes prosecution. "I can visualize elements of the regime turning away," Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal told TIME...