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Good: I’ve seen one person. I’ve only seen them with a suitcase twice, so I was unable to ascertain whether they were a real luggage-carrying individual or whether that was a temporary arrangement...
...student body in that instance. I don’t regret it at all. Is the role of the president of the Undergraduate Council to be the student body’s voice to the media or the world? Is one student quote in the Boston Globe going to ascertain that the Afro-American studies department stays put? Highly unlikely, and certainly not the premise under which I voted for Sujean (whose political views are notably to the right of our liberal campus...
...Seoul would "offer a series of incentives to the North in order to bring it to the negotiating table.'' But Hubbard appeared to suggest that the U.S. believed in straight talking rather than concessions. President Bush visits later this month, and the Koreans are currently in Washington trying to ascertain the administration's intentions...
...French approach terrorism much like doctors approach the common cold: Rather than wiping it out completely, they look for ways to manage it. This is done through a combination of years of patient intelligence-gathering and police work to ascertain the terrorists' modus operandi, and a set of laws that would (and in France at times did) make civil libertarians' hair stand on end. These were necessary in part because the terrorists were not a single band of extremists, but rather a multi-layered series of cells and networks each contributing in a small way to sophisticated terror operations whose...
President Bush claimed to have read Vladimir Putin's soul by looking into the Russian President's eyes. Now he may need to ascertain what lies behind Putin's Cheshire-cat smile - because the immediate future of Bush's prized missile defense scheme may be decided by the Russian leader. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle sounded notice Thursday that his party would use its control of the Senate to restrain the administration from acting unilaterally - and on missile defense that means negotiating an agreement with the Russians...