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...University committee found two Dunster House tutors who sent a threatening letter to six other tutors last fall guilty of harassment. The committee ordered the two tutors to "desist that behavior," a house tutor said last week...
...battle is far from over. In the words of the Talmud: "It is not for you to complete the work, but neither are you free to desist from...
...road from here seems clear enough. Having in effect said the Bosnian Serbs must cease and desist, Clinton must act. But enthralled by multilateralism and fearful of a Vietnam-like quagmire (and against the private advice of senior military officers like Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell, who believes intervention should be massive or not at all), the President seems bent on adopting a feelgood strategy -- a limited action designed, above everything, to ensure a swift exit, a policy that defines success as merely having done something without regard to the ultimate result. By all accounts, Clinton aims...
...muddying the waters were signs that Serbia and Croatia are hatching plans to carve up Bosnia between themselves, leaving the Muslims -- 44% and thus the core of Bosnia's population -- with next to nothing. Croatia, which counts heavily on its friends in Bonn and Vienna, might be persuaded to desist. Stronger sanctions against Serbia, however, including a total trade embargo or a freeze of foreign assets, might only encourage Milosevic to hunker down even more. Short of large-scale military intervention, a prospect no one countenances, it appears, sadly, that no force exists with sufficient power and pluck to halt...
Here is what happened. At 2:30 p.m.--after students had blocked the access of nine Law School employees to their offices; after those students had been informally asked to desist and informed that they were violating the rules; and after their disruption had lasted for more than six hours--University police appeared to take still and video photographs of the violators. At that time the students were formally directed by the vice-dean not only to cease blocking access, but also to vacate the area...