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...anchors the Posavina corridor, turned over to his federation. This looked like a deal breaker. It was almost as if the Presidents were afraid to conclude the deal. "At the end," says Holbrooke, "we faced not a question of substance but one of political will. Do you actually put pen to paper?" Christopher drafted language on his handy yellow pad that would submit the Brcko issue to international arbitration and sent copies to the three delegations...
Quentin A. Palfrey '96 is co-chair of Partners for Empowering Neighborhoods (PEN...
...1980s, the noted political scientist Seymour Martin Lipset was touting this formula as a potent predictor of electoral outcomes. Just add up the unemployment and inflation rates, he said. If this "misery index" was below 10, thumbs up for the incumbent. If above 10, then it was time to pen the memoirs...
...remain open to beauty as well as squalor. The sensuous Alexandria of old, he notes, was a city "so purple, with Nubian slaves, child brothels, and cabals and nearly always someone in the Casbah wailing with meningitis." One can almost forgive the racist undercurrents of a writer who can pen a sentence like that...
Texas Senator Phil Gramm shared his views on affirmative action, saying, "When my hand comes off the Bible [after being sworn in as President], I will pick up a pen and by Executive Order overturn all minority quotas and set-asides in the Federal Government...