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...audience was treated to a screening of a new IMAX film called Jane Goodall’s Wild Chimpanzee, starring the primatolgist and her simian friends, and gave a standing ovation at the presentation of the award—a marble dove so heavy that Goodall couldn’t hold it by herself...
...mullahs can sleep relatively easily, their proteges in Hizballah should not. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage--considered a dove in this Administration--last year showed his talons. "Hizballah," he said, "may be the A Team of terrorists. They're on the list, and their time will come. There is no question about it." A senior Republican foreign-policy analyst says a possible attack on Hizballah's camps is "not too big to swallow...
...sure looked like sophomore catcher Schuyler Mann was late getting back. When the catcher dove into first base just a split-second behind Yale pitcher John Janco’s pickoff throw in Saturday’s second game, it certainly seemed that yet another Harvard inning, along with Mann, had gone up in a cloud of dust, one more casualty of the between-game lull that has provoked Harvard coach Joe Walsh to indefinitely ban parent-sponsored potlucks from future doubleheaders...
...mullahs can sleep relatively easily, their proteges in Hizballah should not. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage - considered a dove in this Administration - last year showed his talons. "Hizballah," he said, "may be the A Team of terrorists. They're on the list, and their time will come. There is no question about it." A senior Republican foreign-policy analyst says a possible attack on Hizballah's camps is "not too big to swallow...
Even a dim understanding of political posturing reveals that Bush was intent on uncompromising unilateralism. To call him a “dove in hawk’s clothing” is a puerile epithet whose sloppiness would make even the most avid of Bush’s spin-doctors cringe. Bush went to the U.N. as a token gesture to garner political points by convincing the naive that he was intent on multilateralism. It was a ploy made all the more transparent by Bush’s obstinacy to granting even trifling concessions over inspection timing and oil-rights...