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...popular hope is that the balance of power in Georgia has genuinely shifted to the parliament via the people. But perhaps a more realistic expectation is that Shevardnadze will prevail, as ever, jostled by feudal alliances, clans and political expediency as old as Georgia itself...
...caliphate is collapsing around him, and his big buddy, Osama bin Laden, has crawled deep underground, Mullah Omar doesn't trust anyone within his ranks whose zealotry might be tempered by common sense. "The Prophet and his Followers had to retreat sometimes, but the Almighty Allah will help us prevail against America. We will fight until we are killed," says Agha, whose English is soft yet fierce...
...public to minimize the effects of an attack becomes available, it should be passed on as appropriate. Until then, a simple warning should be issued telling Americans to remain on their highest alert until further notice, thereby allowing some semblance of wartime “normalcy” to prevail instead of weekly scares. Perhaps the Attorney General could spend less time unhelpfully worrying the public and instead discuss the progress of the investigations, including how many individuals have been detained without trial in America for unspecified links to terrorism...
...Conservative columnists such as Charles Krauthammer and William Kristol have warned against fighting a war by half measures, and Senator John McCain has echoed their calls for a far greater U.S. military commitment. Theirs is a compelling logic: Once a superpower commits to a war, it has to prevail or else it won't be taken seriously as a superpower...
...appropriate level of festivity after Sept. 11. Emotional hysteria following the attack saw the postponement of the first-year mixer “Singled Out,” and the cancellation of intramurals between houses, such as the Adams-Pfoho War. Similar concerns for propriety must not prevail at Harvard tonight...