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...interdicted scores of would-be attackers over the past three weeks. It was only a matter of time before some of them got lucky. Previous efforts to resolve the conflict have certainly been taken as an incentive for extremists to strike. Leaving the matter unresolved, however, does nothing to diminish that incentive...
...inability to respond affirmatively to this particular request to rent office space in Crosstown does not diminish the fact that the long-term goals regarding advancing biomedical research and biotechnology in Boston are strongly shared by Harvard and the city,” McCluskey said...
Tremitiere said that the policy change on financial aid doesn’t diminish concerns over Summers’ positions on those issues—positions which have met with substantial criticism within the BGLT community...
...policies promise to create with its European partners, Lenoir may need all the connections and accumulated goodwill she has acquired. But her easygoing demeanor, eagerness to drop French for English to facilitate discussion and engaging discourse (perfected during teaching stints at Columbia and Yale Universities in the U.S.) should diminish the acidity of debate, though perhaps not resolve underlying differences. Still, bridging gaps - between right and left, women and men, France and Europe - is something at which Lenoir has always excelled, and probably explains her recruitment for the Raffarin team...
When the Israelis stormed Arafat's headquarters last week, they harbored no expectation that the incursion would provoke him to confront terrorism. Rather, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon hopes that harassing Arafat will diminish his status, persuading other Palestinians and the world that he is no longer a relevant power. Sharon thinks Arafat is beyond redemption. He has made clear that his preference would be to kill or exile him. However, he promised President Bush he would not do the former, and he feels bound by the pledge, even though, by his own account, he regrets making it. Last week, continuing...