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...President to get involved in the politically risky and typically unrewarding pursuit of Middle East peace, no matter how loudly the Europeans and Arabs protest. Even if he takes the bold step of visiting the region for the first time in his presidency, Mr. Bush may find, like his predecessor did, that the force of his personality and presence alone is insufficient to bridge the gap between the two sides on the ground - which may be why some of his top aides are reportedly counseling against such a trip. And if, as a number of old Middle East diplomatic hands...
...first one begins with the rise of a member of Iran's parliament, Mohammed Mossadegh, an impassioned speaker and popular politician who had long chafed at British domination over his country's oil. The Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., partly owned by the British government and a predecessor of today's British Petroleum, held the concession for all of Iran. It set production rates and prices as well as Iran's token share of the proceeds. Mossadegh sought a fifty-fifty sharing agreement, which was then becoming the common arrangement between other oil-producing countries and U.S. companies. The British refused...
Gross has already made it clear that leading the curricular review is one of his chief priorities, and thus he is not likely to be as involved in overseeing the nitty-gritty details of student life as his predecessor...
...patrols had arrested about 300 criminals in two days, and their visible presence on Baghdad's dark streets was a sign that the lawlessness plaguing the capital will no longer be tolerated. It was also a sign that Washington's new viceroy has far greater authority than did his predecessor to enlist the military in support of the transition effort...
...Terrorist by Alston S. Chase ’57, who contends that the college’s General Education Program, the precursor to today’s Core Curriculum, may have pushed Kaczynski into his bombing campaign. The Core has been long-reviled some students, but could its 1950s predecessor have moulded one of the most disaffected and violent minds in recent memory? Chase has long answered an emphatic “yes,” having initially floated his theory in a June 2000 Atlantic Monthly article before publishing this book...