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...President Bush not only tosses around bon-mots from the existentialists; he hosts a dinner for President Chirac - a European leader he plainly detests, and who has not given an inch in his opposition to U.S. policy in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East. France won't even consent to U.S. pressure to make the relatively meaningless gesture of putting Hezbollah on a terrorist list...
...Hollywood heavy hitters, including Julia Roberts, Katharine Hepburn, and Meryl Streep. All came to Harvard for a gaudy photo-op, a gaudy production, and a gaudy brass pot—and ended up spending the day with Harvard students. Somehow, the Hasty Pudding has created an award that celebrities consent to and even enjoy winning...
...Merchant Ivory film knows that the British follow any flash of emotion with a long spasm of ritual. So it was that around Christmas, Prince Charles got down on one knee and proposed to Camilla Parker Bowles. She accepted. Then the Prince asked his mother Queen Elizabeth for official consent. The Queen, in accordance with the centuries-old Royal Marriages Act, asked Prime Minister Tony Blair for the government's approval. The PM consulted with the attorney general. Meanwhile, the Church of England chewed over the religious significance of a middle-aged, divorced prince trading vows with his middle-aged...
...approve of the impulse to make the council more accessible and to increase coordination among student groups, student group leaders are not elected in council elections. We are concerned that those who rise through the ranks of an outside organization do not necessarily have the qualifications or the student consent to serve on a council body. Furthermore, we worry that the addition of representatives from student groups onto the council could raise significant questions about equal treatment among student groups. H-Club and Crimson Key especially do not necessarily deserve a spot on the CLC; because many other groups plan...
...simply emphasizing, as any candidate would, his fealty to the core beliefs of the vast majority of his electorate - beliefs which the U.S. media and administration have tended to ignore in their bid to project a fantasy persona onto Abbas as the White Knight who will deliver Palestinian consent to Ariel Sharon's peace terms...