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...changed as a result of North Korea's nuclear "test." The Security Council finally voted on Saturday to impose sanctions on North Korea for testing a nuclear weapon. But the reason it took the Security Council this long to respond to last Monday's blast is that sharp disagreements persist among the major players over the strength of those sanctions, how they should be implemented, and what should happen next...
...longer such feelings persist, the more Hizballah is likely to press its advantage. The danger for Hizballah is that when the level of destruction fully sinks in, Lebanese leaders and ordinary citizens may well hold the group accountable for triggering Israel's wrath. For the time being, however, even Hizballah's critics are mainly silent, no doubt in deference to the prowess that Hizballah guerrillas have shown against Israel's more powerful armed forces. In Beirut's southern suburbs, where the group's bulldozers have cleared massive piles of rubble from the streets, Hizballah has planted bright red banners declaring...
...Pariser and the MoveOniks can't seem to get Bill Clinton's success out of their craw. They persist in seeing "triangulation"-which was the consultant Dick Morris' odious term for Third Way liberalism-as a mere political strategy rather than a governing philosophy. It was a bit of each, of course. But the philosophy was both successful and profound. It proposed the achievement of liberal ends through market-oriented conservative means. Welfare reform, which combined a work requirement with significant financial incentives for the working poor, was the best example of how the philosophy might work. Unfortunately, Monica Lewinsky...
...shooting them with harpoons tipped with grenades, which explode inside a whale's body. We, through our uncontrolled population growth and greed, are pushing to extinction the other wonderful life-forms that share this little planet with us. One remedy would be to boycott all goods from nations that persist in the barbaric practice of commercial whaling. I refuse to purchase any goods made in Japan or any other country that voted for a return to the murder of whales. Jon Ralph Cape Town, South Africa...
...farmer parents; or Minh, a business student working twelve-hour shifts as a waitress six days a week. It’s not easy for them to confront social norms that would limit them to the role of a subordinate worker in a society run by men. Yet they persist, promoting change person by person. Society could do with more of such defiance of the status quo, in both east and west.Juliet S. Samuel ’09, a Crimson editorial editor, is a social studies concentrator in Eliot House. She missed Pimm’s the most during...