Word: neutrality
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...fight "Islamic fundamentalists" is to make peace with Islam. Once America is no longer seen as an enemy to Muslims, terrorist networks will be unable to persuade the masses. But America needs to take the first step. This might mean loosening sanctions on Iraq and/or taking a more neutral stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. And it definitely means educating the American people about Islam. Before America can vanquish Osama bin Laden, it must vanquish its own ignorance...
Indeed, if viewed from neutral glasses at the beginning of the year, Harvard's season would stand out as a first-rate success. Six Harvard wrestlers qualified for the NCAAs. The Crimson won the Ivy League title, the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Assocation (EIWA) championship, and the EIWA's sportsmanship award...
Last Friday, the Crimson faced off against Cornell in the semifinals round of the ECAC tournament, but the neutral ice could not break the curse. A rare burst of offense in the second period lifted the Big Red over Harvard 5-2, halting the Crimson's post-season plans...
...really a curse. Bravely he has struggled to keep some forward momentum in the Ulster peace process, as much against hard-liners in his own Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) as against the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and its political front Sinn Fein. But the process is stuck in neutral, perhaps drifting backward. Last week, British prime minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart Bertie Ahern convened talks with Ulster politicians at Hillsborough Castle near Belfast. All the pomp and glitter, and an IRA statement that it was talking again with the international body in charge of putting paramilitary weapons beyond...
...interest rates in the early '90s. Greenspan has made it perfectly clear (by his standard, anyway) that he prefers debt reduction to a big tax cut. And the meeting came a day before Greenspan and the FOMC meet, at which time they are likely to restore the Fed's neutral bias toward interest rates headed into the winter...