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...University will confer more than 5,000 degrees on its students in fields ranging from comparative religion to dentistry...
Overall, the University's 10 faculties will confer a combined 5,226 degrees in fields from comparative religion to dentistry...
...ready to do its part," Clinton said. "But Europe must be willing to act with us. We must go forward together." The impulse is noble, but the effect could be pernicious. Multilateralism, the collective action by peace-loving nations against malefactors, can either empower or paralyze. It can confer a legitimacy that unilateral efforts might otherwise lack (as in the Gulf War). "Or," says a self-described White House hawk, "the insistence on consensus can stay our hand if it can't be achieved." As Walter Lippmann once warned, multilateralism can become the internationalism of the isolationist...
...Confer, the Nebraska native." The one who got her own paragraph explaining that she thought Harvard was nicer than Yale because Harvard seemed to have more trees. The one who made the astute observation that while Lincoln, Nebraska, wasn't exactly a "hick town," it was "much smaller than Boston...
...line of offense is to smooth relations with the top brass, whose cues set the tone in the ranks. Aides to both Clinton and Powell are working overtime to put out the word that the two men have moved beyond their early differences over the gay issue and now confer several times a week. White House chief of staff Thomas McLarty describes the Clinton-Powell relationship as "very respectful and professional but not in a stuffy way. In a warm way." It helps that Powell, who had threatened to retire early, has agreed to finish his term, which ends Sept...