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...Bush and his team of advisers - many of them members of the Reagan-Bush foreign policy brain trust - dismiss the significance of what Gore calls the "new strategic agenda" and take a dim view of the efficacy of U.S. interventions. Bush adheres closely to the doctrine articulated by Colin Powell, his favored future secretary of state: military interventions "need to be in our vital interest, the mission needs to be clear and the exit strategy obvious." Local conflicts are better left to regional powers. Bush considers the Clinton-Gore deployments in Haiti and Somalia ill-advised attempts at "nation building...
...mean to dismiss the intellectual life for others. A while back, I saw Harold Bloom, the great old Yale professor and author, most recently of How to Read and Why, talking on C-SPAN's Booknotes. Weepy, flabby, brilliant, he was full of hope and sorrow for the literary life that is mistreated and unvalued today. He spoke up for Cervantes and Shakespeare. He had "divorced" the Yale English department. He hated e-books. If you have a mind like Bloom's, no problem...
...institute recently responded to the suit with a motion to dismiss, claiming the institute no longer has an interest in the building...
Cowin said that the trustees of the Holyoke Street Nominee Trust--set up in 1986 with Harvard as the beneficiary--asked the court to dismiss the case because the trust no longer owns 12 Holyoke Street, the land the Hasty Pudding Building sits on. The trust transferred ownership of the property to Harvard last year...
Cowin said that he would likely accept the trust's motion to dismiss. He added that his clients, Mary Catherine Deibel and Deborah Hughes, owners of Up Stairs, would probably then sue Harvard directly...