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After the Crimson's 7-3 win, only frustrated Engineers Coach Buddy Powers could assess the game's outcome from a different perspective...
...question of "last resort" focuses on alternatives to force, notably economic sanctions. The newly retired Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, hoped that economic sanctions would be tried for months more, even up to a year, before any resort to force. An even more difficult criterion to assess is "proportionality," the weighing of the good and evil results. The antiwar protest from leaders of the National Council of Churches included forecasts of hundreds of thousands of casualties and damage lasting "for generations to come...
...Allied war planes battered Iraq for the 20th day today, President Bush said he was sending his defense secretary and top military man to assess the war effort...
...military scrutiny is not only slowing the flow of information; it is also making it difficult for the public to assess the war. Forcing reporters into supervised pools, for example, reduces the chance that candid opinions or negative news about the war will be reported. "If combat boots are wearing out, as they did in Vietnam, or weapons are not working, somebody has to be there to report it," says ABC correspondent Morton Dean. "If we're not there, who is going...
Democracy is a little harder to assess, but by all accounts most of the gains have accrued to Panama's tiny, white-skinned elite of wealth. In the wake of the invasion, labor unions have been repressed and nonwhites shut out of high-ranking government positions. With unemployment running at more than 25%, crime is rampant, and angry protest marches are once again a common sight. President Endara, who is notoriously indifferent to the nation's low- income majority, has so far refused to legitimate his apparent preinvasion victory with new elections -- a tactless omission...