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Last week's assassination was a virtual replay of the still unsolved slaying three years ago in Rome of another labor ministry consultant, Massimo D'Antona. The profiles of the victims are strikingly similar: both men divided their time between the professor's lectern and the government negotiating table; both were well-known and respected within government and academic circles but virtually unknown to the general public. "Easy targets," noted Donatella Della Porta, a terrorist expert at the University of Florence. Police even believe the same pistol was used to kill both...
Talk about "setting the East ablaze." President Bush has repeated his lectern-thumping warnings to the three states he has nicknamed the "Evil Axis." And the targets of his ire - Iran, Iraq and North Korea - have started firing back insults, North Korea raising the rhetorical stakes by accusing the Bush administration of "moral leprosy." But what has U.S. allies in east Asia a little more anxious is the warning by the notoriously skittish regime in Pyongyang that Bush's accusations were "little short of declaring a war" and that "the option to 'strike' impudently advocated...
...true to your heart" may simply have been an unfortunate rhetorical slip on the President's part, but beyond these shores it's read as an inclination to use the war on terror to remake the world order to America's taste. Not surprisingly, as the President bangs the lectern at home and talks of "serving justice" upon those dubbed "evil," his diplomatic elves are out there assuring allies that his speech represents no significant policy shift and that the U.S. will be conducting business as usual...
...Surely no one will notice if I pee in/on this lectern in Sever 105/hotel trash can/proctor/Crimson president/girl...
...Core has been bemoaned and analyzed more than it has been reformed. Those on both sides of the lectern have come to accept the good with the bad. Despite his complaints, “Samurai” prof Bolitho says he enjoys teaching in the Core because it allows him to access students who have little previous knowledge of his specialty. “I like teaching non-concentrators,” he says. “I don’t want to teach Japanese history to just history majors...