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...Joseph Joffe about NATO [March 30]. It should have been disbanded when the Warsaw Pact was dissolved. NATO (or should that be the U.S.?) has started many of the recent wars, using Sept. 11 as an excuse, and dragged its allies into expensive and - as will eventually be proved - fruitless wars. Russia is neither a threat to Europe nor the rest of the world, however, bringing NATO to its borders is provocative. Would the U.S. be happy if Russia made military alliances with Canada or Mexico? I doubt it. Peter Hendricks, reliquias, portugal...
...Until then, campus activists will wage fruitless campaigns. They’ll pass out flyers and wear ribbons and march on the Yard, but to no avail. And they will likely ignore these words of caution, as they are convinced of the righteousness of their causes. Many protestors like to quote Frederick Douglass, who once said that those who want freedom without agitation “want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.” But point out that these protests don’t make so much as a splash, and campus activists seem...
...indefensibly retarded response to the Internet. A show on fox.com is competing with the exact same show on youku.com and tudou.com, Chinese versions of YouTube. Foreigners pine for a taste of the gold standard of entertainment and will find a way to get it. Rather than play a fruitless game of cat and mouse with a billion Chinese, networks and producers ought to harness the potential of this vast audience. Admittedly, there have been efforts to do so as recently as last year through acquisitions of international media outlets and distributors, but the efforts have been halfhearted. Our brothers...
...group of researchers at Rockefeller University in New York City have some new ideas - and no shortage of optimism - about how to find the holy grail of AIDS research. Their approach to vaccine development, outlined online on March 15 in the journal Nature, is to abandon the as yet fruitless search for a magic bullet - which zeros in on just a single target to halt the virus - and instead try to mimic the body's natural, if rare and more diffuse, defense against the virus...
...After fruitless series of pushing the ball up the court, sweet Bear give and go ties...