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...Support for Redeker has been widespread - but sometimes nuanced. Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin called his situation "unacceptable," a message forcefully echoed by French newspapers and teachers' unions. The minister of education, however, said that state employees should be "prudent, moderate and wise in all circumstances" - an implicit criticism that infuriated many of Redeker's supporters...
...Prudent onlookers might derisively call the Hasty Pudding Theatricals—the University’s traditional source for male drag-centered dramatic art—a freak show. This year, they’d be right. The Pudding selected yesterday the script for its 159th annual stage production, which will open Feb. 23. The burlesque comedy, tentatively titled “The Tent Commandments,” follows a European big-top circus and its semi-occult side show. The peace among the attractions collapses, however, when it’s decreed that only one tent may be pitched...
...Prudent but, as The Ground Truth shows, imprecise. You are told about a woman who put a hand inside her cloak to pull something out and, with a split second to decide whether she?s friend or foe, gun her down - noticing too late that what she reached for was a red flag. Or you see a car approach. Chad Reiber, an Army ranger, says: "I engaged a vehicle with a 50-caliber machine gun and blew it up. It was a pretty big explosion. I learned they had gasoline and a checkpoint book. I remember laughing after I blew...
...scores of scenarios, the vast majority of which will never be put into practice. "Planners always plan," says a Pentagon official. Asked about the orders, a second official said only that the Navy is stepping up its "listening and learning" in the Persian Gulf but nothing more--a prudent step, he added, after Iran tested surface-to-ship missiles there in August during a two-week military exercise. And yet from the State Department to the White House to the highest reaches of the military command, there is a growing sense that a showdown with Iran--over its suspected quest...
...American feelings are high throughout the Middle East, which in recent months has been gripped not only by the war in Iraq and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but the ferocious summer battles between Israel and Hizballah in Lebanon. With radicals blaming the U.S. in all three wars, it is prudent to assume that some of them may seize this opportunity to strike...