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Either option--Saddam's voluntary departure or a coup--would leave the U.S. with hard decisions and expose divisions among the allies. To satisfy the Bush Administration's ultimate aim of neutralizing the threat from Iraq, the Saudis propose that, as a condition for amnesty, Iraqi officials would have to unambiguously accept the removal of all weapons of mass destruction. Pentagon officials say the U.S. would probably still push for American troops to enter Iraq, in part to hunt down those weapons, a proposition that might inflame Arab opinion. What's more, the Saudis propose that however Saddam might...
Although Morgenthau held out little hope for total disarmament, he believed technological stability might bring a balance between the United States and the Soviet Union, with both sides possessing invulnerable attack forces. Keeping the amount of armaments within reasonable bounds, he stated, should become the "realistic aim" of the government...
...holy grail of mindless TV addiction with the hope of becoming VJs for an unspecified project. Both of us had gotten vague e-mails about MTVU, a spinoff MTV channel theoretically geared specifically toward college students. Instead of broadcasting boy bands and bubble gum pop, MTVU would aim at a more sophisticated music audience. This is not to say that MTVU will entirely forgo programming that plays on stupidity—in fact, movies like Tom Green’s Road Trip are typical of the humor that MTVU will likely display. MTVU will showcase life at colleges across...
...officials are fearful that they may be hunted down and prosecuted for being part of a regime that has used weapons of mass destruction against foreign enemies as well as its own people. Saud insisted that the initiative targets no specific "personalities," yet it is clear that a major aim is to isolate Saddam by giving his military commanders a sweet incentive to cooperate with the U.N. and even overthrow...
...original aim of affirmative action was not to close the door on anyone: it was meant to open the door to people who had been excluded. This is what people forget when they criticize affirmative action. They imagine it as a free pass for unprepared, under-educated, poor, scary people from the inner city to run amok and blacken the hallowed halls of higher learning, all in the name of “diversity.” If that is in fact the situation, then who is really to blame? Not the students...