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...THINK FALLOUT FROM A WAR WOULD BE SO MUCH GRAVER THAN TONY BLAIR AND GEORGE BUSH SEEM TO? I simply don't analyze the situation as they do. Among the negative fallout would be inevitably a strong reaction from Arab and Islamic public opinion. It may not be justified, and it may be, but it's a fact. A war of this kind cannot help giving a big lift to terrorism. It would create a large number of little bin Ladens. Muslims and Christians have a lot to say to one another, but war isn't going to facilitate that...
...lucky enough to have a stipend to pay for train passes, and I’m lucky enough to not have any pressing responsibilities outside of my job. On the other hand, the youth I work with are enmeshed in a Catch-22 of their own, much graver than mine. They need jobs in order to support themselves and stay afloat in communities where adult unemployment rates reach as high as 95 percent. Businesses, however, refuse to open stores in these poor, dangerous neighborhoods, and so teens must commute in order to join the workforce. Unfortunately, when you also...
Tauriac was wary of Rusty. He had insisted that his wife's problems were simply signs of temporary postpartum depression, not a graver mental illness. He also told her that he was teaching the kids to be quieter for long periods and that he was instructing them in woodworking. His 3 1/2-year-old, he said, could use a power drill...
COREY CLARK The former American Idol contestant claimed he romanced judge Paula Abdul. The graver offense was his music...
...postering regulations does nothing to make it less of a farce. My quest to find people who don’t take it all so damn seriously has been in vain—Grimeland and Tom D. Hadfield ’08, my initial hope for sublime jest, are graver-than-thou in their millenarian hopes that the University and alumni will cough up a total of $12 million to fund an endowment to improve undergraduate life. If only they were making a joke—are they?—they would have my vote in a flash. Whether...