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...that purpose [preventing Security Council action] we shall abandon all our rights. But if there is a proposal that the rights of Iran can be secured to some extent for the present time, and the other rights can be secured through negotiations, we are open to that. In a letter that I sent to the Europeans, I told the ministers that we are prepared to talk to you to come up with a formula that prevents diversion from peaceful nuclear technology [to nuclear weapons]. If there's a will, there is a way. It can be solved even...
...modest budget cuts on programs from farm aid to housing to student loans are running into election-year resistance, even as the legislators complain about the costs of his Medicare prescription-drug program. On Friday the coalition of House conservatives known as the Republican Study Committee sent a letter to the White House demanding more justification for Bush's spending requests, specifically the $92.2 billion in emergency money that he wants for the war on terrorism and Gulf Coast rebuilding, "so that we can intelligently exercise our constitutional right to appropriate funds...
...helm at Harvard in 2001, the idea was that he had to shake up an institution badly in need of change. "I have sought for the past five years to prod and challenge the university to reach for the most ambitious goals," he wrote last week in a letter announcing his resignation. Summers' view that he had inherited a university with urgent problems is in part a way of justifying the highly undiplomatic way he conducted himself as president, but he's hardly alone in his view. His temporary successor, former Harvard president Derek Bok, is about as different from...
...January: A letter found in the possession of a captured al-Qaeda operative details Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi's ambitions to provoke Shi'ites and start a civil war in Iraq...
...vu.When Bok was at Harvard’s helm in the late 1970s, the campus was consumed by a controversy over the University’s financial links to apartheid-era South Africa.Bok, who returns to Mass. Hall on July 1, took a skeptical stance toward divestment demands.In open letters to the Harvard community, Bok wrote that he believed divestment was unlikely to help end apartheid, and might threaten the University’s academic mission and financial stability.This time, as students want Harvard to sever ties with companies that do business with the Sudanese government, Bok?...