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...Unfortunately, the case for the U.N. is relentlessly pragmatic. The threshold argument is as compelling as tapioca: it exists. You can't just quit. Everyone belongs, which was not true of the League of Nations. It is where you go to make a formal argument to the world - as Adlai Stevenson did during the Cuban missile crisis, and as Colin Powell tried to do last month. It's nice to have a place like that; on rare occasions, the unofficial discussions among countries can yield some benign results. And on the rarest occasions - the first Gulf War; Afghanistan - there...
...that there are other ways to prevent colon cancer, including reducing the saturated fats in your diet and increasing your intake of folate-rich leafy green vegetables. You should probably also limit your consumption of red meat, processed meats and refined carbohydrates. And if you smoke, you should definitely quit...
...case, I have never seriously considered the position because I would never quit my judgeship for it,” Posner says...
...hockey teams don’t like to quit, and Clarkson completed its schedule despite the off-ice distractions, with Parker as interim head coach...
That means that if all the world’s major corporations quit business and gave everything to the poor, they could only give the global poor twice the assets they already own. Thus, it is far more important to empower the poor to use and multiply what they already own than to “redistribute” what others own. The burdens of being eclipsed outside the formal economy mean that their assets are used inefficiently and have great potential to multiply...