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...Arafat may be hoping that an upsurge of violence confined to the West Bank and Gaza will deepen Sharon's crisis, and force the Bush administration to resume its stalled mediation efforts - particularly in light of the Iraq factor. The Saudis and other pro-Western Arab leaders have warned the U.S. against initiating action against Iraq while the West Bank and Gaza are ablaze. And that creates an incentive for Washington to press for Israeli restraint in the interests of mustering maximum support against Saddam...
...weeks after subjecting America to the biggest terrorist strike in world history - and at a time when Americans are in the grip of an anthrax panic that has even shut down part of their government - bin Laden may be trying to paint himself as invincible in order to deepen the despair of his enemies and rally his supporters...
...enormous problem for American policymakers from the start and led President Bush to feather his engines longer than he had planned. There seemed little reason to launch any kind of military action against bin Laden's adopted homeland if it was only sure to split Bush's coalition, deepen foreign resentment of the U.S.--and leave bin Laden at large. And so Bush realized that while he was making war on Afghanistan, he had to make love to it as well...
...ever seen. To leave these issues unaddressed—to fail to implement a living wage; to preside over a University where people of color are dramatically under-represented in the faculty and over-represented in service work; to keep the Harvard Corporation a secret and unaccountable body; to deepen the area housing crisis; to permit the production of Harvard apparel in sweatshops—is to refuse to respect all members of the Harvard community and the people it affects. As Summers himself told the Los Angeles Times in 1998, “It’s not enough...
...invitation to the Taliban to hand over Bin Laden even at this late stage may have been designed to deepen internal splits within the Afghan regime and hasten its collapse. And also, perhaps, to any reassure allies of the purpose of the air campaign. Of course his reference to Saddam Hussein as an "evil man" may have sent a few shivers up the spine of U.S. allies who want the anti-terror campaign confined to Al Qaeda and Afghanistan, but he confined himself to warning the Iraqi leader against supporting terrorism or taking advantage of U.S. distraction to stir...