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Members of the Bush Administration, of course, are not so crass as to admit that their aims in Iraq are imperialist. Yet U.S. soldiers are already finding themselves in situations miserably familiar to those of the old imperial powers. Take the deaths last week in Fallujah. Young soldiers firing on demonstrators among whom agents provocateurs with weapons may (or may not) have been hiding--we've seen this movie before, from India to Algeria to Ireland. Many of the Administration's statements on Iraq reveal a cast of mind last exercised by those with ostrich-feather plumes on their hats...
...year. After a plan is announced, investors should have several months to respond. It's not clear whether mutual-fund investors, who lost plenty, will get anything. It may be up to funds to make any claims, which puts them in a delicate spot: they would have to admit that they relied on others' stock ratings...
Poniewozik blasted the journalists and on-air personalities who dared express their approval for our nation's efforts in Iraq. He discussed bias to make his point. I find it refreshing for a news person to admit there is bias in the media. Unlike the majority of reporters, the "biased" individuals Poniewozik talks about often espouse the views of the vast majority of loyal Americans. When did it become a bad thing to believe in your country? Or to want to help those who are oppressed by inhumane regimes? STEVEN HAWKINS Dallas...
...finally figured out the reason for North Korea's bizarre behavior of late: some time last year, in a still top-secret caper, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld must have convinced North Korean leader Kim Jong Il to switch sides and sign on to the Pentagon payroll. Okay, I admit this is far fetched. But it might just explain the series of self-defeating plays Kim has made on the strategic chessboard since President George W. Bush's "axis of evil" speech. Of course, Pyongyang's approach to statecraft has always appeared a tad peculiar, its international posture unapologetically savage...
Harvard was not the first top law school to admit women. While women did not enroll at HLS until 1950, females had been attending Yale and Columbia in small numbers since before...