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Nicholas F.B. Smyth ’05, a Crimson editor, is a government concentrator in Dunster House. He is spending his summer in England, apologizing on behalf of his country’s government and reminding people that many Americans detest Bush...
...hiring policy recognizes the intersection between graduate students’ detest of the frenzied scramble associated with applying for a teaching fellow job and undergraduates’ interest in being taught by qualified, well-prepared...
...Dirksen Senate Office Building cafeteria that day. Lott planned to give Roberts the post, but he decided that when he met Roberts for lunch, the first words out of his mouth would be: "I'm going to make you chairman of the Ethics Committee" a panel most members detest serving on, much less heading. Then he'd watch Roberts' jaw drop. "Hey you got to have some fun around here," Lott told TIME with a laugh...
...King may be more helpless when it comes to Iraq. Jordanian officials detest Saddam Hussein, but the King is opposed to any U.S. war against him. Ordinary Jordanians are sympathetic to Iraq and suspicious of U.S. designs in the region. Western diplomats worry that a U.S. war against Iraq could provoke political unrest undermining the pro-American Hashemites. Moreover, Jordan is dependent on Saddam's largesse for its economic survival, thanks to a deal by which Saddam sells the Kingdom all its oil at a 60% discount from world prices and takes payment in the form of imports that keep...
...Palestinian suicide bomber as a species of the same genus as an al-Qaeda mass murderer. But this tale is deeper and darker than that. In any event, all five of the largest West European countries--Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Spain--have good reasons of their own to detest terrorism...