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Perhaps. But even so, prepare for the humvee to stay parked down the street for some time. "Pardon me, speaking frankly," said a leading Shi'ite cleric to Garner last week. "Do not abandon your work too soon. If you say you will stay here for two years, I say stay for four." Like the man said, you have to be patient. --Reported by Malcolm MacPherson/Arbil, Paul Quinn-Judge, Romesh Ratnesar and Nir Rosen/Baghdad and Mark Thompson/Washington
...abort. She submits, but the baby survives. When the woman refuses to let the doctors "dispose" of her infant son, the book says practitioners should "act according to the one-child policy... [and] point out that because medical abortions can affect a child's normal development, she should abandon" her protests and allow euthanasia. If that doesn't work, the authors say, "let the family-planning office decide." Of course, that office ordered the abortion in the first place...
...river, MIT was forced to radically revamp a summer program for high school students which a conservative group complained discriminated in admitting only minorities. And a similar program at the Harvard Business School for college seniors is also under fire, raising the prospect that it too would have to abandon its central mission of serving under-represented racial minorities...
...within a week, he announced that he would abandon the plan...
...larger sense, maybe we’ve all failed. I’m not referring to Adams’ pessimistic observation that Harvard “taught little, and that little ill.” Instead, I have to wonder if this ethic of procrastination will be easy to abandon as we grow older. Will our generation of Harvardians retain its slacker ways and persist in its procrastinatory habits? Will little Johnny’s birthday party be organized at the last minute for lack of other motivating interest? Will office presentations be thrown together at lunch and winged just...