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...Klein's "What Daddy Couldn't Say" [Dec. 4]: There appears to be an elephant in the living room of the Bush household. When Daddy can't discuss Iraq with his son because the son is in denial and Daddy doesn't want the son to feel grief, that's grave dysfunction. The only solution is intervention, by the son's immediate family and our elected representatives. Please, Daddy Bush, have that talk with your son. MARIANNE ELLIS Sacramento, Calif...
...With the talks about to begin again and Pyongyang at least nominally willing to discuss how its nuclear program can be limited, Beijing now has to "think very hard about how they can be more effective," Lieberthal says. But in reality, Beijing's options are very limited. Pyongyang made it clear with the nuclear test - undertaken despite the express and public request by China's President Hu Jintao to refrain - that there are limits to Beijing's influence in Pyongyang...
...hoped that faculty members, students, and administrators would discuss the results on their campuses,” said John W. Curtis, the AAUP’s director of research and public policy, who co-authored the study...
...That’s the courteous thing to do,” Murray said, “and we expect it to be more constructive and useful to have the chance to engage and discuss the contents one-on-one” with the new president...
...international affairs class organized a model U.N. where they debate the practical implications of such abstract concepts as sovereignty and self-determination in the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the Iraq War. Sievert says many of the insights they're gathering extracurricularly while researching mock resolutions inform the class discussions, adding intellectual spice to the sessions she flavors with student-produced Power Point presentations and documentary screenings, as well as reading assignments from foreign affairs journals and memoirs of genocide survivors. Barrett required students to attend an on-campus debate on the Arab-Israeli conflict he organized between a Muslim cleric...