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...following a tepid reception in New Haven of The Game’s new tailgate rules.At the 123rd playing of The Game, set for Saturday, Nov. 18, students will not be able to take alcohol into the tailgate area, though beverages will be available for purchase for those with proof of legal age.The more strictly regulated tailgating seems to have scared the Elis away. The deadline for reserving one of the eight spaces allocated for Yale groups at The Game’s student tailgate came and went last Sunday, but not a single application was submitted. An additional...
...down with Pyongyang for direct bilateral talks, respect its sovereignty and give it the chance to open up and reform? Stephen Kwok Wai Chan Hong Kong In the run-up to the Iraq war, I recall National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice stating that, in lieu of solid proof that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, "we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." I also recall getting into heated debates and insisting that North Korea was the actual case of a dictator working toward acquiring wmd. While the Bush Administration pursued a war in Iraq...
...the Iraq war, I recall National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice stating that, in lieu of solid proof that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, "we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." I also recall getting into heated debates and insisting that North Korea was the actual case of a dictator working toward acquiring WMD. While the Bush Administration pursued a war in Iraq, the smoking gun turned into a mushroom cloud in Pyongyang. The Bush Administration has failed miserably in addressing the North Korean threat, and its policies (or lack thereof) have made...
...sect or ethnicity, want the U.S. forces out. The Abu Ghraib scandal still resonates strongly among Iraqis. Those who resent the U.S. presence never tire of using it as a flogging horse. Even today, statements and videos issued by insurgent groups and jihadi organizations routinely cite Abu Ghraib as proof of the U.S.'s malign intentions in Iraq. Even America's allies in Iraq often bring up the scandal as proof of how little the U.S. understands the country. Many Iraqis will admit that their own security forces treat prisoners at least as badly, but they point out that their...
...questions we humans can ask, such as "Why am I here?", "What happens after we die?", "Is there a God?" If you refuse to acknowledge their appropriateness, you end up with a zero probability of God after examining the natural world because it doesn't convince you on a proof basis. But if your mind is open about whether God might exist, you can point to aspects of the universe that are consistent with that conclusion...