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...Nowhere is this sense that the Bush Doctrine really means Manifest Destiny writ globally more worrying than in Indonesia. The country has been battered by terrorism?a series of unexplained terrorist bombings over the past few years includes the October conflagration in Bali that killed 191 innocents?yet only 31% of Indonesians polled by Pew approved of Bush's war on terror. Many of them see it as a war on Muslims?on themselves?not on the terrorist networks their own police have uncovered. After the Bali attack rumors spread, and usually reliable newspapers conjectured, that the CIA was behind...
...hand over 15 SCUD missiles to Yemen after interdicting them aboard a North Korean vessel on the high seas underscores the legal gray area in which the incident occurred. It was maritime irregularities aboard the SCUD-bearing vessel So San - nationality and papers not being in order, a false manifest and the vessel's refusal to submit to inspection - that allowed the Spanish navy, acting on a U.S. intelligence tip, to seize it in international waters in the Arabian sea. Those irregularities, and the fact that its unlisted cargo of 15 SCUD missiles bound for Yemen was hidden under thousands...
...could simply mean that Americans see war as a regrettable necessity. The President has decided to plunge ahead because he believes we face a future menaced by frightening weapons brandished by brutal killers who have gone unchallenged and unchecked. It is not a matter of a new, Bush-style Manifest Destiny for a superpower that "obeys only the laws that suit it and respects only the nations that resemble it." It is a matter of giving subjugated peoples a voice and of safeguarding the future. THOMAS M. DORAN Plymouth, Mich...
...worthlessness of a Dean’s List designation where only 8 percent of upperclass students don’t make it—and the uselessness of “scholarships” that involve no money—is manifest. In order to make Harvard’s academic awards more meaningful, the Faculty should eliminate the John Harvard and Harvard College Scholarships...
...also important to make progress towards diversifying the Faculty. In addition to Hammonds’ manifest qualifications, it is encouraging to see another black woman receive tenure; Hammonds is only the fourth black woman out of the 442 tenured Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) professors. The lack of women and minority Faculty has been a long-standing problem in FAS—which is particularly startling because, as Hammonds says, the presence of minority faculty supports and inspires minority students in their own work...