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...based, country." He favors what he calls a new "dialogue" with all sides about how to eliminate the old borders and establish a centralized government in Sarajevo, but critics fear he means a Muslim-dominated state in which ethnic Serbs and Croats would lose their collective rights. Serb leaders insist that the entities, and hence their Serb-dominated statelet, are sacrosanct. "We will fight" attempts to dismantle the current system, Dodik told a Serbian news agency earlier this month. Speaking to Time, the Serb Republic's President, Dragan Cavic, struck a more conciliatory note. He said the idea...
...some professors insist upon teaching in the first week? Shopping period is like wine-tasting. One is meant to be introduced to the wine and not possessed by it, though this too sometimes happens...
...Bush's charge that Iran has "nuclear weapons ambitions," for one thing, is not an established fact at the U.N. Iranian leaders insist they have no interest in pursuing nuclear weapons, and simply seek to build all aspects of an atomic energy program that are permitted under the Non-Proliferation Treaty. If they were to do so, of course, they would be well within reach of bomb-making capacity - and that, together with concerns over parts of the program that were undeclared until they were later exposed, has prompted the Security Council to ask Iran to voluntarily refrain from uranium...
AHMADINEJAD: People in the world are free to think the way they wish. We do not insist they should change their views. Our position toward the Palestinian question is clear: we say that a nation has been displaced from its own land. Palestinian people are killed in their own lands, by those who are not original inhabitants, and they have come from far areas of the world and have occupied those homes. Our suggestion is that the 5 million Palestinian refugees come back to their homes, and then the entire people on those lands hold a referendum and choose their...
...career choice. This strain of opposition is not only misguided—Harvard instructors are capable of making their own career choices—but it necessarily compromises Harvard’s ostensible commitment to teaching by suggesting that college instruction alone is not a worthy career. Second, administrators insist, control of the curriculum should rest only with tenured professors, the most accomplished scholars in a given field. This should largely continue to be the case. But in many fields, lecturers teach longstanding curricula—such as in introductory mathematics—or deftly tweak them to fit their...