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...Iraq has loudly resisted the new proposals and threatened to cut off discount oil supplies to any of its neighbors that go along with the new program, but sympathy for continued sanctions against Iraq is at a low ebb in the Arab world anyway - and the continuing Israeli-Palestinian violence, which has raised the anti-American temperature across the Arab world makes it even more difficult for Arab leaders to be seen to endorse new sanctions. But Russia, France and other U.N. Security Council members have also raised objections to many of the details in the U.S.-British proposal, rendering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Suffers Iraq 'Smart Sanctions' Setback | 5/31/2001 | See Source »

When historians look back on the past 10 years, they will surely remark on this anomaly: At a time when American power and our stake in the world were at an all-time high, Americans' interest in and knowledge of international affairs was at a low ebb...

Author: By John F. Kerry and Richard G. Lugar, S | Title: A Global Education Policy | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

This intifadeh has sent a surging tide of hate flowing from Palestinians to Israelis and from Israelis to Palestinians. The hate doesn't ebb back and forth now; it runs at full flood, overwhelming those who hate and those who don't and those too young to know what hate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Terrible Tide Of Blood | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

...with Harvard’s confidence at its lowest ebb, as the Crimson’s playoffs hopes had just been dashed by virtue of its three losses earlier in the weekend...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Athlete of the Week: Ben Crockett '02 | 5/1/2001 | See Source »

...somebody who doesn't follow the ins and outs of testing, the events of the past couple of weeks might seem contradictory. First the president of the University of California, Richard Atkinson, made a speech proposing dropping the SAT. It looked as if testing was going into ebb tide, right? Then, a few days later, George W. Bush began his first major address as President by proposing an enormous new federally mandated regime of standardized tests for public schoolchildren, with every student being tested in reading and math every year from third through eighth grade. This would be the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Do These Two Men Have In Common? | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

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