Word: leste
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...that they must leave. The 2 million refugees in Syria and Jordan are seen as less of a problem because they have been granted more employment rights, citizenship or both. But Lebanon has always been far less hospitable, imposing regulations that prevent refugees from working in some 60 professions, lest they become rooted in the country. The refugees associate Sharon with the massacre, even though it was carried out by Israel-allied Lebanese Christians who had long fought Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization. Christian fears that the mainly Muslim Palestinians threatened their survival helped spark Lebanon's 1975-90 civil...
...including their representatives on the search committee. Other universities have included students on their search committees without incident and have produced stellar candidates, most recently in Stanford's John L. Hennessy. The Corporation should not view students as barbarians at the gates, to be shunned at all cost lest they corrupt the process...
...Wednesday, March 14--3/14 1:59--the world celebrated Pi Day. Yet the holiday, which remembers one of the oldest and most fundamental ratios in mathematics, was in fact celebrated only by a sad few. Across the city, lonely revelers--careful not to be seen together, lest their full nerddom be revealed--raised their tankards 3.14 times in silent commemoration. The Mathematics Department held a pie-eating contest, only perpetuating the trend that remembers our most famous ratio only through popular baked goods. I did not attend out of protest...
...Saudis stormed the plane at the behest of the Russians, lest it be allowed to fly on to Afghanistan - as the hijackers demanded - where the Russians would have had a much harder time dealing with the crisis. But now that they have the passengers back, the question that looms large will be whether they'll get the hijackers, too. It's by no means clear that the Saudis will rush to turn over the suspected hijackers...
They got it. We fed them loans, knowing that much of the money would disappear corruptly. We turned away from atrocity in Chechnya lest we weaken the new Russian state. But most important, we went weak in the knees on missile defense. The prospect of American antiballistic missiles upset the Russians. And upsetting the Russians was something we simply were...