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GATT is the imperfect, sputtering but indispensable engine of globalization. It prods all nations in the direction of vigorous, profitable and peaceful commerce with one another. Paradoxically, GATT thrived when the world was divided between the camps of the two superpowers and the U.S.'s principal trading partners were also its military allies, united in the common cause of opposing the Soviet threat. As recently as three years ago, the U.S. and the West Europeans would have found a way to finesse their current dispute over cereals and seed...
Nothing inspires more confidence in Republican campaign strategists than the belief that George Bush is unbeatable on the foreign policy front. The President can point to the kind of experience that no mere Governor of Arkansas or Texas businessman can claim. Even the imperfect victory over Iraq, which failed to push Saddam out of power, is a Bush triumph in one crucial respect: it achieved the declared aim of ousting Saddam from Kuwait...
...homage to the mold itself. There can hardly be a more intensely moving portrait of a woman's naked body than his Bathsheba with King David's Letter (1654). At root it is a Titianesque conception, heir to those sumptuous Venetian nudes; but Rembrandt avoids idealism, suffuses the real imperfect body with thought and a sense of moral reflection, re-creates the structure of flesh in terms of an amazing directness of "rough" brush marks. We think of paintings like this or the later Kenwood Self-Portrait (circa 1665), with its sketchy construction (arcs in the background, a near Cubist...
...evidence exits suggesting that drug abuse has increased," he said, adding however that there is imperfect evidence that the number of addicts has stayed the same...
...process of improving race relations is an imperfect one in which celebration for one may mean offense for another. Imperfect though it may be, it is a learning process as well, one which encourages discussion as a means of understanding each other. In approving BSA's grant request for the "Rap and its Influence of the Liberation Struggle" project, we endorsed the intent to explore the influence of rap in our multicultural environment. Galper calls this "irresponsible," but in fact we would have been irresponsible to do otherwise. Muneer Ahmad '93 Natosha Reid '93 Co-Chairs, Harvard Foundation Student Advisory...