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...leading foreign diplomats, including U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, has visited Beirut as part of an intense diplomatic effort to bridge the divide between both parties. France has spearheaded those efforts and, on Monday, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner was in Beirut for another attempt to strike a deal. But his efforts appeared to be in vain. A visibly frustrated Kouchner blamed unnamed parties for derailing the negotiations. "Everybody was agreed [on the process]. Everybody said they had agreed. Now I'm amazed, France is amazed, that something is stuck, something is blocked, something is derailed, and I would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trying to Hold Lebanon Together | 11/19/2007 | See Source »

...quarter: Collier Winters comes in and runs to the 8, a 16-yard gain. He still has yet to officially attempt a pass in his career, as his 2nd-quarter attempt was nullified by a pass interference penalty...

Author: By Brad Hinshelwood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HARVARD-YALE LIVE! BLOG 11/17/07 | 11/17/2007 | See Source »

...Thomas Jefferson a nerd too? I suppose George Washington was an isolationist loon. I'm gung-ho for Paul because I have been reading him for years, recognize his consistency and have come to understand that he is correct on many issues. I resent Stein's attempt to pigeonhole me and those like me. Benjamin J. Thompson, Elkhart, Indiana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 11/16/2007 | See Source »

...inspired faith in the possibility of progress in a sometimes confusing world,” Utpal Sandesara ’08 said. Sandesara added that, while the talk was motivational, he felt Tutu somewhat over-simplified the dichotomy between justice and injustice. He cited Tutu’s attempt to explain the current situation in the Middle East in terms of absolute good and evil. “His framework is a very different one,” said Yinliang He ’08. “It’s beyond argument and counterargument. It?...

Author: By Alexandra perloff-giles, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tutu Condemns U.S. Foreign Policy | 11/16/2007 | See Source »

...fooled into believing that the book is a manual on how to take over the world. “Microtrends” is “Freakonomics” meets Gregory Mankiw’s “Principles of Economics.” As an attempt to follow in Steven D. Levitt ’89 and Stephen Dubner’s footsteps by using statistical analysis to debunk conventional beliefs, it falls flat because of its obsession with numbers, which oversimplifies the complex reality of our social and political interactions.“Microtrends?...

Author: By Denise J. Xu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Microtrends’ as Fun as Microeconomics and Half as Relevant | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

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