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...Saudi officials in Riyadh have also urged more U.S. involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian situation, and they oppose a new war in Iraq. Friction has been mounting between the two governments over Saudi restrictions on U.S. pilots flying Iraq missions from Prince Sultan Airforce Base. There has also been disagreement over the use of the Combined Air Operations Center, or CAOC, a new U.S.-built underground facility equipped with satellite receivers, computers and secret communications that enable commanders to direct a major war with real-time battlefield feedback. The Saudis allowed CAOC's use during the Afghan war, but have...
...devouring itself is depressing precisely because the scenes are so familiar from the past. More troubling, though, is what last week's mayhem says about the country's future. Even after partition, India ended up with one of the largest Muslim populations in the world, now numbering 150 million. Friction with the Hindu majority is inescapable. But the long-term solution for national harmony believed in by hundreds of millions for decades - a purely secular state that respects all religions equally - is looking increasingly like some hoary fantasy. Vajpayee and his BJP claim to believe in secularism, but they came...
...devouring itself is depressing precisely because the scenes are so familiar from the past. More troubling, though, is what last week's mayhem says about the country's future. Even after partition, India ended up with one of the largest Muslim populations in the world, now numbering 150 million. Friction with the Hindu majority is inescapable. But the long-term solution for national harmony believed in by hundreds of millions for decades - a purely secular state that respects all religions equally - is looking increasingly like some hoary fantasy. Vajpayee and his BJP claim to believe in secularism, but they came...
...Friction between the athletic department and the club tennis team has a precedent...
...feud between Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers and Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 has become old news; indeed, it seems that at least some of the friction was hype created by the media’s ever-present desire to have a feeding frenzy at Harvard’s expense. Still, the issues this controversy raises are anything but ephemeral, cutting to the heart of some of the most fundamental principles upon which Harvard—or for that matter any University—is based...