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...deanship was a result of efforts to reduce the administrative burden on Kidd, who also directs Phillips Brooks House...
...adultery (he was said to have been having an affair at the Memphis hotel the night before he was shot)—once said, “There is a civil war going on within all of us… each of us is two selves...the great burden of life is to always try to keep that higher self in command...and not let the lower self take over...
...while President Bush's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, has long advocated a postwar diplomatic strategy of punishing France for its opposition to the war, the French and other critics may see the burden of occupation being shouldered mostly by the U.S. as punishment enough for Washington's going it alone with a narrow coalition...
...Bush has no doubt he did the right thing, and the logic of domestic politics required that he forcefully restate his reasons - anything less would have played into the strategy of those Democratic Party hopefuls who hope to make electoral hay out of America's growing anxiety over the burden of managing postwar Iraq...
...invasion is a fait accompli, and the French have nothing to gain, this time, by using the veto. The U.S. is now in the supplicant role, and even armed with a new UN resolution, Washington will struggle to persuade reluctant nations to send troops and money to ease the burden of occupation on a fiscally and militarily stretched America...