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After the game, which the fired-up Tigers won 12-0, Princeton decided to pre-empt Harvard, and cut off all relations with the Crimson. The rivalry resumed in 1935, after Yale had stepped in to mediate the discussions...
...bigger than regime change or even the elimination of dangerous weapons. The U.S. has launched a war unlike any it has fought in the past. This one is being waged not to defend against an enemy that has attacked the U.S. or its interests but to pre-empt the possibility that one day it might do so. The war has turned much of the world against America. Even in countries that have joined the "coalition of the willing," big majorities view it as the impetuous action of a superpower led by a bully. This divide threatens to emasculate a United...
...aware when he posted the treatise that the porn site he had visited had been busted. The Landslide trial in August 2001 was well publicized. Attorney General John Ashcroft himself announced it to the press. Townshend's Web account could be a self-serving effort to pre-empt suspicion. It could also turn out that his motives are more mixed than even he knows. If he was abused as a child, could he separate his revulsion at child pornography from his curiosity about it? Does Townshend saying "I have never downloaded" sound too much like Bill Clinton saying he never...
...themselves are often not entirely baked. A case in point: Frum's "axis of evil" and its accompanying doctrine of pre-emption, which Bush announced at West Point last June and discarded in Korea this January. The revised doctrine: Caveat Pre-Emptors. We have the moral responsibility to pre-empt evildoers...unless they have the ability to empt back (as North Korea does). This is an embarrassment, and a rather dangerous one at that. There should be a lesson in it for the President. A diplomacy of quiet strength and careful words, and the rigorous parsing of nuances--the latter...
...purpose of the heated rhetoric was to convince Saddam that he is on the brink of war so he will have every incentive to meet inspection terms. At the same time, the U.S. hoped its tough tone would pre-empt any positive reaction to Iraq's appearance of cooperation, which might erode international readiness to take up arms against him. The White House is already worried the U.N. will accept a lower threshold of compliance than the U.S. The tough words also reflected the deep resistance lingering in some parts of the Administration to let inspections proceed...