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...recent intervention in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. We also believe that the Bush administration must formulate a coherent policy for furthering Middle East peace or else be forever reacting to crises of this sort. The fighting that has been smouldering over the past months threatened to erupt into more wide spread violence when detachments of the Israeli Army occupied portions of the Gaza strip almost two weeks ago. The aggressive movements by the Israelis came in response to mortar attacks fired against Israeli settlements from the Gaza region...
Undoubtedly, Secretary Powell’s strong and entirely appropriate action saved many lives and ensured that the current uneasy standoff did not erupt into a wider and more tragic conflict. The fact remains, however, that the Bush administration has not articulated, let alone put into action, any strategy aimed at getting the Middle East peace process back on track. Powell’s reaction was just that, a reaction. The United States has vital national security interests at stake and a peaceful, prosperous Middle East is what our foreign policy should be striving...
LAKE PLACID, N.Y.--When Dominic Moore scored his overtime winner Saturday, the Harvard sophomore did not erupt with the usual elation after ending sudden death...
...that reservoir of bitterness is about to erupt with the nearly simultaneous publication of two books that describe the same incident from perspectives that couldn't be more different. In No Apparent Danger, reporter Victoria Bruce documents what she says are warning signals Williams missed, safety precautions he failed to take and grandstanding opportunities he seized. Williams tells his own story--and defends himself against his critics--in Surviving Galeras, co-authored by Fen Montaigne. Taken together, the books provide a vivid account of how the people who study volcanoes do their dangerous work...
...test's prominence ensures that shouting matches will erupt over it regularly. Usually one side says the SAT should die because it's racist; the other says it should flourish because it maintains standards. Their arguments are important but had started to seem pointless, since the number of SAT takers has increased virtually every year since Pearl Harbor...