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...official who until now has been Washington's point man in handling the Iranian nuclear issue - U.S. Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns, who left office last week - has made clear that the standoff will land on the desk of the next U.S. President rather than being resolved under the Bush Administration. "I think this is going to be a drama that plays out well into 2009 and beyond," Burns told the Council on Foreign Relations last week. He added, "There's plenty of room for this type of diplomacy, both sanctions as well as the positive offers of negotiations. That...
...response to Friday’s larceny, residents of Eliot E-51 revealed one of the missing Adams House rugs, hanging it out of their window overlooking the courtyard—equipped for nighttime viewing with a clipped desk lamp...
...phone calls.Once someone called to find out how to say “74” in Latin, Lake said.“Someone has some random Latin question, and they figure, ‘I’ll just call Harvard, and some nerd at a desk will tell me what I want to do,’” Schafer said. Christopher P. Jones, a Classics professor, said he does not believe that the department should give out translations gratis.“My belief on the whole is we’re not a service...
...songs, the nonstop snazz and of course the bawdry - or, as she puts it, "hits, glitz and tremendous tits." Innuendo goes out the window when Miss M. comes to town. The clerk at the ticket desk offers the friendly warning that this is "adult entertainment," and inside you'll hear Midler caution the crowd, "Please don't call the Pope if you see a tit or two." You won't have to phone Rome; skinwise, the show is pretty chaste. Bette relies on one of her longtime characters - Soph (for Sophie Tucker), the oldest babe in show business - to supply...
...office. Bill Clinton had called for a military dictator in Haiti to step down, and the crisis had ratcheted up to the point where "the ships were moving, the Navy SEALs were on alert." Some of the most experienced statesmen in Washington "were all standing around the desk saying to Clinton, 'You've got to make a decision.'" (After Clinton ordered the 82nd Airborne Division to start flying toward Haiti, the dictator backed down.) A President can take counsel from the most eminent advisers in the world, but in the end, only the President can make the fateful decisions. Some...