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...College has many organizaions whose raison d’etre is to take such stands. All council members are more than welcome to be a part of them. However, they should leave their politics outside the council door and keep in mind the best interests of the student body that elected them...
...more interesting question is what anyone, bin Laden or otherwise, had to gain from it. If it was someone else piggybacking on al-Qaeda's publicity, they defeated the whole purpose of putting a scare into the media by not identifying themselves or giving their reasons. Given that the raison d'etre of terrorism is to generate attention and useful fear for a cause, any other group is wasting its spores by sending out an unacknowledged attack that Americans are likely to credit to someone else...
...current situation of women in this country objectively, they might realize that women no longer need interest groups, support networks, activism and doctored curriculae—that they, in fact, are better off without feminists’ supposed help. But that objective view would leave feminists without a viable raison d’etre, and so they continue to ignore, for example, the possibility that the average female college student walking through an activities fair might support women but not support feminism, that she might instead consider feminism a threat to her own sense of self and empowerment...
...succeed in this war, the extent to which its allies in the Islamic world are prepared to contribute will be an essential factor. Bin Laden’s cause, like most fundamentalist ideals, greatly relies on its impact on people’s minds: defeating the religious raison d’etre of his cause will surely contribute to the fall of his terrorist empire. If the American administration is capable of convincing the Islamic governments and the general public of the validity of its cause, and succeeds in doing so, then this other war, this mental war, will...
...Arafat's problem is that the longer the intifada persists, the more remote becomes his cherished Palestinian state - and his own relevance to the future of his people. His own diplomatic and political standing today, and the very raison d'?tre of the power structure atop which he sits, has been the peace process and turning the PLO from a liberation movement into a government. Without the promise of achieving a viable state through negotiation, he has very little to offer Palestinians in exchange for cooperating with the Israelis. And it's that awareness that helps explain his skittish shuttling...