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...change that. Lowell and Quincy House dining halls are just as overrun by Quadlings for lunch as Adams ever was, but no one sees us starting a war. Why? Perhaps it is because Adams and Pforzheimer Houses have open e-mail lists, which served as the staging ground in the all-out fight for dining hall rights. Virtual community builds real community; more Houses should take up the cue, either with e-mail or Web-based House forums...
Even if the U.S. were to decide to go all-out in the war on drugs, it is unlikely that it would be able to get much traction: the countryside is rough, stuffed with guerrilla fighters and lacking the fuel depots, airfields and roads that a modern army needs. Giving Colombia five times the resources would not make the cleanup go five times as fast. It would be like giving your five-year-old a Sun workstation to do her math homework. And no one in Washington wants U.S. soldiers drawn into a long jungle battle. A State Department website...
This is the last mile I will have to run for as long as I want. Might as well go ...
...called "peace zones" in Bireuen and north Aceh were formally scrapped. Both the Indonesian army and Brimob have been reinforced, pushing up the security forces' overall strength in Aceh to 37,000. The military is gearing up for what it has termed "limited operations," which Acehnese fear will be an all-out assault on GAM's military and political infrastructure, aimed at driving it back into the province's spine of jungled hills. The French aid organization MEdecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), not known for faintheartedness, pulled out of Aceh earlier this month. Says the local head of another...
...Democrats are trying - Tom Daschle, introducing a rival energy proposal, accused Bush on Thursday of trying to "drill our way out of this problem... we cannot use our coming energy challenges as justification for an all-out assault on the environment." But they're likely to find what environmentalists have always found: Americans love to dream about a cleaner world, but when we find out what it'll cost, we'll usually take a good excuse instead...