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...assassinate Hariri, a prominent Syrian opposition advocate, in a bid to reassert its government’s shaky grip on power in the face of U.S. pressure. The other scenario is that another organization or country was responsible for the assassination. Undoubtedly, this entity would have sought to exploit the Syrian leadership’s vulnerable position by committing an act that would guarantee invigorated international pressure on the country. It is not a coincidence that the relative peace that Lebanon has enjoyed for the last fifteen years has been shattered at the same time that Damascus is facing unprecedented...
Harvard will have to shore up its interior defense against Yale in order to exploit its size. In the two teams’ meeting in New Haven, Bulldogs forward Dominick Martin shot 5-for-8 from the floor and scored 10 crucial second-half points. Possibly the Ivy League’s best pure post scorer, the 6’10 Martin is second in the league with a .540 field goal percentage, and is coming off a 20-point performance on 10-of-12 shooting in Tuesday’s loss to Brown...
...Vagina Monologues is written to exploit the guiding principle that the ability to laugh at something, or even just say it out loud, can blunt the edge of the controversial and allow us to confront the unspeakable. Thus, hearing other women’s experiences can, if nothing else, help us to think about our own. In fact, as a woman, it is hard to not to identify with and reflect on two skits (“Hair” and “My Angry Vagina”) that pointedly discuss the unnatural aesthetic standards by which...
...necessity of war against Iraq. His U.N. tenure may soon seem like a picnic compared with his next assignment. In part owing to the White House's reservations about making drastic changes, the bill establishing the DNI was written with more than enough ambiguity for Rumsfeld and Goss to exploit if they so choose. For instance, the White House resisted giving the new intelligence czar so-called tasking authority over the CIA director, according to one expert, meaning that in practice, Negroponte can't, say, order up CIA action...
...upon phone companies' being able to provide businesses and households with a broad slate of communications and entertainment offerings, including Internet-based calling and even cable-TV-style video services. NTT may be big and rich, but the company "is not used to thinking competitively and reacting quickly" to exploit new business opportunities, says Credit Suisse First Boston analyst Hitoshi Hayakawa...