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Have we finally reached that small, rocky piece of political turf where Tony Blair stands up to George W. Bush and publicly says, "No more"? Britain hopes so. With Blair heading to Washington this week to address a joint meeting of Congress, a rare honor for a foreign leader, the entire British political establishment - Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat - united last week to pressure the Prime Minister into doing exactly that. The reason: the Pentagon's announcement that two Britons held for months at Camp Delta, the U.S. military prison for suspected terrorists at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba...
...First of all, historically, a lot of the fellows in the cluster have already interacted in the past and written some papers together,” said new fellow Eli Ben-Sasson, who is a post-doctoral student with a joint post at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “That’s what we’re hoping for, to be able to be in one place and work together...
Then he gently emphasized, in a homespun analogy that drew on his affection for craftsmen and construction, the importance of compromise: "When a broad table is to be made, and the edges of planks do not fit, the artist takes a little from both, and makes a good joint. In like manner here, both sides must part with some of their demands...
Franklin could have begun with those about himself. America's original back-room operator was welcomed in France as a "noble savage," in sense and sensibility a joint production of Voltaire and Rousseau. The French embraced him as a frontier philosopher, which Franklin was not on either count. When consulted for information on farming, he confessed to thorough ignorance, having lived in cities all his life. His pages of political philosophy make for a skimpy offering. He was dismissive when his sister inquired after these: "I could as easily make a collection for you of all the past parings...
...Crescent (the Islamic version of the Red Cross). Others simply feel that any good done by outright evangelizing is outweighed by the violence it could provoke or the possibility that needy Muslims might be discouraged from accepting aid. Donna Derr, an associate director at Church World Service, a joint ministry of 36 Protestant, Orthodox and Anglican denominations that hopes to deliver approximately $2.5 million in medical supplies in Iraq, notes that her group's faith-based status is evident in its name. "And our name is on the materials we provide in many cases. Beyond that...