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...take heart! Switzerland’s quick withdrawal and apology completely smoothed over what could have been a most unpleasant situation. Immediate U.S. pursuit of a parallel course of action regarding Iraq, it leads to follow, would do the same...

Author: By Justine R. Lescroart | Title: Iraq: ‘Oops!’ | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

...thought we had begun to make strides, but then we couldn’t have been more shocked by this ‘axis of evil’ speech.” “The majority [of Iranian diplomats] feel it is a fruitless pursuit,” he said. After the panel, one student said the discussion was thought-provoking. “Tonight it became very clear, in talking about the leverage other countries can exert over the United States, the extent to which there is multi-polarity in the world,” said...

Author: By Jonathan Q. Macmillan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Panel Splits on War Chances | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

...into the red-brick, four-story former labor-movement community hall, which had more recently served as a refuge for young people from a society they detested, a place where they could spend hours and days listening to music, drinking beer, smoking dope and planning occasional political protests in pursuit of a revolution that never materialized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stormy End of Youth House | 3/7/2007 | See Source »

That's about the only spot of humor in the script, by James Vanderbilt, whose widely circulated screenplay of Richard A. Clarke's Against All Enemies--yet to be made--is a model of compression and clarity. This one, with two main story lines (Toschi's official pursuit and Graysmith's amateur obsession) plus a character count in the high dozens and lots of leads that go nowhere, right up to the end, is necessarily a more sprawling affair. Yet it manages to be true to the complexity of the case while never losing cohesion or coherence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Anatomy of a Manhunt | 3/2/2007 | See Source »

...quiet desperation: 16-year-olds engaged to elderly men, girls subjected to verbal and physical abuse by fathers and husbands, and so on.Yet the histories of “head-scarf girls” of the Institute are different: these are comparatively privileged girls whose parents support their pursuit of college education. These girls have given the head scarf a particular semiotic significance: it is for them a “symbol of ‘political Islam,’” and they will drop out of school and commit suicide before they will remove it.In...

Author: By Alison S. Cohn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: TOME RAIDER: Snow | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

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