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...also discussed, in general, the various responsibilities that the College has been asking the houses to shoulder, which run the gamut from security to academics. It was in this larger context that I remarked that, while the Bok Center runs training sessions for teaching fellows and tutors, not all of the resident tutors in all of the houses are trained for all of the tasks that they may or may not be asked to carry...
...unity of the sanctions regime is starting to fray," says a State Department official. "The Russians have lots of things at home on their minds, and the Europeans have the Balkans." Saddam wants to ease the constraints imposed on his sovereignty and remove the conflict from the U.N. context: within those corridors, Iraq is putting itself forward as accommodating. "In our culture, once somebody comes to you with military threats, you don't respond. If someone comes to us in a nice way, we respond," Iraqi Ambassador Nizar Hamdoon insists. Would Saddam...
...rights violations, is a military organization. It is a military organization that certainly lives up to every part of its name and will indeed use force in defense of Israel when necessary. Often times it is defending Israel from Palestinians. The results usually make for heart-wrenching, out-of-context, 30 second news clips on American TV. I won't dispute this. However, the Israeli-Palestinian situation is an extremely complex one, with a long history to it. It is not black and white, but rather a confusing fog of gray...
Well, except for one. "Right" and "wrong" are for Bush mutable terms, and they change not with moral or factual context but with political need. Many observers claim the president held off on Somalia to avoid accusations of using military muscle for political gain. But Bush, in defending the no-fly zone in southern Iraq, threatened action anyway. Repelling Iraqi aggression was "right." It's more likely that Bush hesitated for the polls' sake and then intervened in the Horn of Africa because he thought historians would like...
...What came out of the economic summit here made me think that there might be more receptivity to it, and it might be something we can look at in the context of an overall program that seemed fair to people. But you've got to understand what most voters brought to this election, at least most people who voted for me. They brought a keen awareness that while most of them were worse off than they were 10 years ago, there had been a big divergence in income in America. Inequality had got worse, and all the tax breaks...