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...British diplomats' proposal - and the logic of pursuing a negotiated settlement in places such as Fallujah - requires treating those waging the insurgency as a legitimate political force and creating non-violent avenues for them to pursue their goals through the political process in a post-occupation Iraq. But that assumes there are significant elements among the insurgents willing to go that route, and also that the Bush administration could countenance a course of action so squarely at odds with much of what it has maintained about Iraq. In the interim, however, the insurgents are unable to prevail militarily...
...when many people think Iranians are Arab: Iran is in the Middle East, after all. How can someone truly explore a culture in an unbiased way with this mode of thinking? With the College’s curricular review underway, University Hall should take a close look at the logic of organizing NELC this...
...Buccaneers’ logic in making the choices is likely the result of the NFL’s pay structure, which almost encourages teams to cut high-priced veterans as their contracts draw to a close in order to absorb a smaller hit against the salary...
...exactly what they're trying to provoke, rather than allow themselves to become isolated from the civilian population. For the U.S. forces, Fallujah may have become a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't equation. With the political damage already done by the earlier standoff, the logic of deploying superior force to eliminate a military challenge will likely prevail sooner or later. And, in the interim, the U.S. occupation authority has taken steps such as the reversal of a policy to deny government jobs to all former members of the Baath party, and the reinstatement of key officers...
...century, after a pendulum swing, B.F. Skinner depicted the mind as a blank slate. Now the pendulum is swinging again. Harvard, which lured Pinker from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last year, seems poised to keep its tradition alive. --BY ROBERT WRIGHT, author of Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny