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...first letter, from Bonn to Moscow, will state that German aspirations toward eventual peaceful reunification are not contradictory to the spirit or intent of the new treaty. The second, from Bonn to the Allies, which the Soviets will formally acknowledge, will declare that the Bonn-Moscow agreement does not prejudice Allied rights in Germany, including Berlin, nor does it preclude an eventual peace treaty that could allow a reunification of East and West Germany. On both points, the Soviets acceded to Bonn's demands...
...Summers divided much of the campus in September 2002 when he said that Harvard and MIT professors who advocated that the universities divest their endowment holdings from Israel were "anti-Semitic in their effect, if not their intent...
...last May, when the 67,000-strong Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education passed a resolution urging its members to boycott Israeli universities, Summers, who was in London at the time, said that the resolution was "anti-Semitic in both effect and in intent...
...Children under the age of seven or eight really do not have the ability to understand the persuasive intent of advertising and marketing," says Dr. Thomas Robinson, an associate professor of pediatrics at Stanford University and lead author of the study, "so the justification for marketing, which is to inform a consumer, doesn't really hold for them, because they can't understand that advertising is biased...
...less reluctant to give London a makeover for Blowup. "I actually painted trees, streets, houses. ... I changed a small part of London to make it more London than London." Under his brush, the grass was greener, the phone booths a more violent red. (Redgrave was given auburn hair.) The intent this time was not political. It was to show the power that a visual artist has over reality - and the limits of that power...