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...Blix, 74, has been entrusted with judgment calls that could delay or hasten war. He downplays the difficulty of his job - knowing when Iraq is trying to thwart his inspectors, he says, will "be a matter of common sense." Until last week the closest Blix had come to Baghdad in recent years was the satellite photo of the Iraqi capital that dominates one wall of his spartan office at U.N. headquarters in New York. The space reflects both Blix's low-key personality as well as the fact that nobody took UNMOVIC that seriously until two months ago, when President...
...Some here at Harvard and some at universities across the country have called for the University to single out Israel among all nations as the lone country where it is inappropriate for any part of the University’s endowment to be invested. I hasten to say the University has categorically rejected this suggestion,” Summers said...
...premillennium rapture teachings remind me of '60s guru Timothy Leary's aphorism, "Tune in, turn on, drop out." Only now the opiate of bad theology has replaced drugs. Why work to redeem the culture for Christ if you believe it is only going to get worse and that will hasten the Rapture? Wake up! We do not know when Christ will return, so let's get back to the work at hand. ERIC LAHR Atlanta...
...line still influences Harvard’s building decisions and, more broadly, its relationship with the community. To this day, Harvard community relations officials hasten to point out how they follow the old red line agreement...
...want to return to what I see as the key to these Games (and as I do so, I hasten to claim, if defensively, that this isn't mere jingoism, though it does involve the U.S. effort). American athletes, who won an astonishing number of medals, came from Florida, New England, Washington State, Southern California and all points in between. They included slacker dudes on snowboards and distinguished veterans like the magnificent speed-skater Chris Witty, who fought through a pre-Olympics bout of mononucleosis to set a world record at 1,000 meters. They brought American flavoring to such...