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...Utopia," the men argue politics, spot lapses in their opponents' logic while stitching up the holes in their own. Or they follow the train of a piquant proposition and find they have talked themselves into a terminus. Do they contradict themselves? Very well, they contradict themselves. And they have such fun doing so; this is revolution as parlor sport. But the chat has gravity, for at issue is the question of how men shall live. Stoppard, himself a child refugee from the Soviet bloc, has embraced liberal humanism - human-ness, humaneness - in all his work. At the very...
...course of subsequent inspections would put Iraq squarely in breach of 1441 - and almost certainly trigger a military response. The UNMOVIC chief's comments could be read as a subtle warning to the Iraqis that they'd be better off fessing up to any infractions, even if those contradict what was said by Baghdad a week ago, than being caught lying...
...don’t mean to contradict the president, but that is his vision at the close of his term. In the sciences particularly, a lot of space is needed, and that may mean moving to a location away from the Cambridge campus,” Spiegelman said at the time...
...occupation. He claims: “We do not want to rule over three million Palestinians, we do not want to prolong a war that kills children and women and soldiers.” But the policies of the Sharon government and the actions of the Israeli military wholly contradict these claims. The presence of settlements on Palestinian land forces the Israeli military to maintain a constant presence in the West Bank and Gaza. The creation and military protection of settlements serves absolutely no security function and only serves to place both Israelis and Palestinians at risk...
...footnoted version of Bush's Cincinnati speech before the President delivered it, correcting a few items and satisfying himself that it represented the agency's view. So perhaps it is not surprising that, according to a White House aide, Bush was miffed that testimony Tenet later declassified seemed to contradict part of his speech. Tenet wasted no time rectifying the situation. The next day he issued an unusual clarification that there was "no inconsistency" between the CIA's view and that of the President. --With reporting by James Carney and Michael Duffy/Washington