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According to HCAP Public Relations Director Sarah D. Rea ’06, the Boston Globe tour is an example of this mission, since it will allow students to focus on freedom of the press in the two cultures...
...European countries have changed their positions - they've pulled their troops out of Iraq. As the old gangster movie adage goes, "You run this town only because people think you run this town." Now when President Bush comes calling offering quotes from French existentialists - ?Albert Camus said that freedom is a long distance race,? the president said Monday - sweet talk about the environment and promises to make the Israeli-Palestinian peace process a top priority, the Europeans know the reason is that Washington has been humbled by events. Indeed, it may be a measure of how the strategic balance...
...effect of Operation Iraqi Freedom has not been to make U.S. enemies tremble in the face of American power. Instead, it has made them more aware of the limits of that power. A two-year occupation by 150,000 U.S. troops has failed to subdue an insurgency by a Sunni Muslim force that U.S. officials insist numbers no more than 12,000. Today, U.S. officials concede that the insurgency can't be defeated militarily, and it has long been evident to the Europeans and others that Washington's military resources are badly overstretched by the mission in Iraq - and that...
...country that has used political assassination to maintain its dominion over Lebanon for three decades: Syria. Though Damascus denied involvement, anti-Syrian emotions were unleashed in the streets of Beirut, where tens of thousands of mourners from across Lebanon's political spectrum turned Hariri's funeral into a freedom march, demanding an end to Syria's occupation of Lebanon...
...watched Bush's inaugural speech on television in utter bewilderment as he pronounced the words freedom and liberty again and again. But what struck me most was the moment when security guards grabbed a pair of protesters trying to show their banner. In the spirit of his speech, Bush should have asked that the protesters be allowed to wave their banner. It was another of Bush's missed opportunities and the only thing that made me smile on that miserable day. Kees Broertjes Amsterdam...