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That the U.S. is pulling out of a major international conference comes as no surprise these days. It's the reason offered for Secretary of State Colin Powell's boycott of the U.N. conference on racism that's cause for alarm - concern that Israel and its ideology, Zionism, would be subjected to harsh criticism at the conference. Or as President Bush put it last week, the delegates were going to be "picking on Israel...
...attempt by lawyers to protect themselves legally, but in fact they may be better off under the old rule: if you are prohibited from blowing the whistle, no one can blame you if you don't. What the new rules offer lawyers is a moral opportunity to sound the alarm about clients bent on doing harm--and of course, an opportunity for good publicity...
...realize how much this music means to the students we serve, though. Periodically, instead of awakening to alarm clocks or trucks on the loading dock, we are awakened by Robert, the French horn player, who likes to warm up out on the front lawn at about 7:45 in the morning. And we are all thankful that the small building across from our windows is home to the bassists and not the trumpet players, because they are outside practicing all the time. The lawns and small practice sheds here are constantly full of music. These high school kids...
...Russians have more cause for alarm, of course. Freedom and democracy were supposed to improve the lives of communism's huddled masses; instead most Russians today are considerably worse off than they had been under the red flag. No individual more memorably personified Russian antipathy to communism than Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the writer who turned his horrific experiences inside Stalin's gulag into the defining novel of the Soviet era. And if Solzhenitsyn was a moral compass for Russian anti-communism, then his views on post-Soviet Russia offer pause for thought: "One might have imagined that things could not have...
...three months was enough time to change my whole life. I planned to come back in the fall newly fit, organized, energized, having filled out any graduate school applications (having figured out, of course, what I plan to do with my life). I planned to get up when the alarm went off and finish a draft of my thesis by the end of the summer (because of course I have also figured out what my thesis is really about, and not only that, I have found where I saved it on my computer...