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Transferred to a conflict with a representative of Luxembourg over (oddly anachronistic??€”a slingshot?) trivialities, the video makes its point loud and clear without causing blunt force trauma from hammering it home...

Author: By Elisabeth J. Bloomberg, Ben B. Chung, Bernard L. Parham, Will B. Payne, and Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Pop Screen Sleepers 2005 | 12/15/2005 | See Source »

...realities of the War on Terror, however, make Annan seem oddly anachronistic??€”as anachronistic as Solzhenitsyn seemed at Harvard 26 years ago. Annan is stuck in the mindset of the proverbial day before yesterday—or, more precisely, the mindset of Sept. 10. Naturally, he has sanctimonious reverence for the United Nations, considering it the definitive arbiter of U.S. foreign policy. As we have seen, such an exaggerated view of the United Nations can directly conflict with the ability of the United States to effectively combat the intersection of terrorists, outlaw regimes and weapons proliferation. In many...

Author: By Duncan M. Currie, | Title: The U.N.'s Paladin at Harvard | 4/28/2004 | See Source »

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