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Recent White House statements about Iraq continue this grand tradition. Despite his difficulty with the English language, Bush is spectacularly proficient in doublespeak. Consider, for example, his avowed desire to bring United Nations weapons inspectors back into Iraq. While decrying Iraq’s “decade of defiance?...
The disagreement stems from a policy change instituted at NACAC’s sparsely attended convention in San Antonio one week after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, when members voted to allow students applying under binding Early Decision programs at one college to file as many nonbinding Early Action applications...
The Toronto International Film Festival had a sad intermission last year. The Sept. 11 attacks divided the 10-day event in two: a happy gathering of the cinema spirits, followed by a mournful, distracted coda. This year Toronto was back to being North America's largest, nicest movie convention. Between...
Last year's TIFF was not so festive. The terrorists of Sept. 11 severed the 10-day convention in half: five days of illuminating fun, five days of mourning from which the movies provided only fitful distraction. This year Toronto returned to its root functions as film showplace and star...
The Harvard/MIT divestment petition would make future U.S. investments in Israel contingent on Israel ending its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, vacating settlements in these territories, renouncing policies of torture and deportation of prisoners and suspects and compensating Palestinian refugees. All of these conditions, which accord with U.N...