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Harvard needs Ruddock to stop those breakaways, though. And the consensus is that she’ll only get better with experience...
Several preliminary proposals were submitted for public comment yesterday and have not been endorsed by the city council. But committee members said that in addition to the bike path, they have also reached consensus about a plan to extend pedestrian crosswalks at the intersection of JFK St. and Mass. Ave. and create one giant crosswalk from Curious George bookstore to Out of Town News...
President Bush spent the week in Europe trying to rouse a posse to go after Saddam Hussein, but the response of his NATO allies underscored the centrality of the new round of UN arms inspections underway in Baghdad. The Europeans simply agreed to restate the existing consensus - that Iraq must comply with UN disarmament requirements, or else. That, after all, is the position codified in UN Security Council resolution 1441, which was adopted unanimously two weeks ago. The U.S. has begun sounding out European allies on troop commitments in the event that military action becomes necessary - the responses will vary...
...Administration officials concede that although the U.S. regards the "no-fly" zone confrontations as a breach of the latest resolution, that position would be unlikely to carry the day at the Security Council, and would therefore not serve Washington's interest in establishing a consensus on Iraq. A divided Council, after all, is the principal reason Saddam has managed to get away with thumbing his nose at the UN until now. While the U.S. may continue to cite the "no-fly" zone combat as evidence of Iraq's belligerent intentions, the violations that will count in the international conversation over...
Even more disturbingly, there is no consensus of what constitutes a material breach of the resolution. The United States, for example, maintains that attacks on U.S. or British airplanes patrolling the no-fly zone, one of which happened just last Friday, could trigger war. After all, the resolution commands Iraq to not “take or threaten hostile acts against…any member state taking action to uphold any council resolution.” But almost no one else agrees...