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...about to help out just to be nice, but his commission - which interviewed senior figures in both regimes - believes their cooperation can be won on the basis of enlightened self-interest. Still, they would need an incentive to cooperate, which would necessitate the sort of diplomatic quid pro quo on other issues that would stick in the craw of President Bush...
...constant refrain by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during last summer's war in Lebanon was that Israel could not be expected to return to "the status quo ante," in which it lived under threat from a heavily armed Hizballah across its northern border. And yet, the signs are unmistakable that the status quo was not significantly altered by Israel's military operation and the truce that followed. Neither the U.N. force nor the Lebanese Army appears likely to even try and disarm Hizballah, which has agreed simply to refrain from openly bearing arms in the border zone...
...high-achieving students. Each of these groups face unique challenges in college admissions. The editorial does not present a satisfactory explanation of why Asian-Americans face higher college admissions standards and perpetuates certain stereotypes. After casting aside these stereotypes, it’s difficult to justify the status quo the editorial defends. LUYI ZHAO ’10 November...
...There was so much sex on the fly that it seemed almost quid pro quo that they would eventually have gotten it for their efforts,” the author writes. The infections had to be hushed up to prevent John Lennon’s then-wife, Cynthia, from filing for divorce and walking away with half of John’s earnings. A team of “tame venereologists” was called in to treat the most influential and arguably most beloved band in history...
...cited, only t-shirts and posters make an appearance in the exhibit.By juxtaposing protest pieces of the past with those of the present, the show stresses the universality of dissent even while attesting to the wide variety of ways in which people try to challenge, and change, the status quo. Enrique Chagoya’s simple modification of Goya’s 1799 etchings against the censorship and suppression of Enlightenment ideas, “Los Caprichos,” fashion them to fit issues of import 200 years later. A tiny Tinky Winky Teletubby doll stands witness to continued...