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...years after the law took effect at Harvard, many of the fears about the effects on faculty turnover have proved less grave than many had anticipated...
...influence their evolution in ways favorable to American interests? Haughtily ignoring our traditional allies is shortsighted, naive and dangerous. James Ford Cooper Punta Gorda, U.S. Re Charles Krauthammer's views on going it alone: I would rather have friends willing to tell me I am about to make a grave mistake than have rubber-stamp yes-men. Tom Faulkner San Diego An Unkind Cut I found it offensive that in your section of people who had "15 Minutes of Fame" in 2003 [Dec. 29-Jan. 5], you included mountaineer Aron Ralston, the climber who had been pinned by a boulder...
...reporters his disquiet that the government had oversold evidence of Iraq's WMD, giving a different slant to his bosses and parliamentary committees and then despairing as he realized his dissembling would be revealed. But Hutton saved most of his fire for BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan for making "very grave" and "unfounded" charges in a live radio broadcast last May after he met Kelly. Gilligan reported that the government "probably knew" that a central claim in its dossier on Iraqi WMD--that some were deployable in 45 minutes--was false when the claim was inserted. Testimony to Hutton showed clearly...
There was cause for such grave concern. For two full months that school year, every time Zappala stood up, he blacked out for 15 seconds. He had to clutch onto whatever he could find to keep from falling down...
...comments might be that he is seeking to heal the rift with Europe - the Europeans are hardly going to be convinced by Vice President Cheney's plea for moving on at the same time as insisting that the Iraq invasion was a timely and prudent preemption of a "grave and gathering danger". Powell appears to be acknowledging that the antiwar Europeans may indeed have been right, or at least that the outcome of the conflict has not exactly repudiated their opposition...