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Interesting. If the rot was always there, why is it that these critics never said so before? They never suggested that we challenge these wobbly despots? In fact, they bitterly denounced the Bush doctrine for presuming to destabilize the region in pursuit of some democratic chimera? They opposed the Bush doctrine precisely because they preferred stability. They warned us darkly that the alternative to the status quo was the seething Arab street--an unruly mob, anarchic, anti-American, pan-Arabist or perhaps Islamist, ignorant of all liberal traditions and ready to rise up against America should it disturb the perfect...
...student body, including approximately 2,000 students in degree and certificate programs from over 100 countries. Rather than parenthetically invoking “extension” as a sort of curse (insult), The Crimson should have acknowledged the phenomenal education students receive while attending the Extension School, whether in pursuit of a degree or just an intellectual interest...
...important role. They have the internal motivation of a highly professional staff. Yet they have been used like debt-collection agencies for the big creditor countries. It's time to restore their role in helping all 182 of their member countries, not just the rich ones, in the pursuit of enlightened globalization...
Though the opposition forces were successful in getting Karami to resign, Lecturer of Government Carol R. Saivetz said there are still many unanswered questions in Lebanon’s pursuit of independence...
...gift for describing altered states of mind with absolute lucidity. More important, no one else had his curiosity about this country and his righteous, inexhaustible rage at its numerous shortcomings, a rage that never cooled or hardened into cynicism. If he overindulged?and he did?it was in pursuit of a truth he felt he could find in no other way. "There is no honest way to explain it," he wrote, "because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over." He has gone over now, and we can only hope he finally...