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Indeed, the President is privately telling aides that after leading the nation to war in his first term, he wants to spend his next four years being "a peace President." Officials in the Administration contend he has more credibility as a diplomat now that he has shown a willingness to use force to back his principles. "The reason diplomacy will be effective in a second term is because of the use of the military," says a senior Administration official. Doubters suspect the shift is aimed at coaxing other nations to help rescue his failing Iraq policy--and to present...
...work of the government-sponsored Janjaweed has been made even easier by the endless delays of the international community—because any kind of intervention has been so long in coming and so easily thwarted, aid organizations must now contend with a rainy season that started last week and has knocked out nearly all transportation access to the most desperate regions. Furthermore, because unchecked looting and ethnic violence prevented any real planting, this aid-hungry area will have no crops this year. This forced starvation will bring about the eradication of the Darfurians with remarkable speed. According...
Amis along with freshmen Tom Hegge and Mike Lynch, will need to step up next season if the Crimson hopes to contend for a league crown...
...Moore, Harvard’s vendor for caps and gowns, claims to provide “quality and service since 1907,” but some graduating students at Harvard contend otherwise...
...most colleagues contend that it’s precisely this uninhibited approach to scholarship that has made Sen one of the most important thinkers of his time...