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...Tehran engineered the crisis in hopes of deflecting the Bush Administration's drive to impose U.N. sanctions for Iran's suspected nuclear-weapons program. But whatever encouragement they may have had, neither Hamas nor Hizballah ever needs a specific justification for striking Israel. Attacking Israel is, for each, its raison d'ętre. And the groups' tacticians do not need to think that a particular strike will achieve a particular result. They take a long view, common among Islamists: over timedecades or even centuries, if necessaryIsrael will crumble. Israelis will lose their fortitude under the pressure of attacks, give...
...History Boys” does not have one theme; its profundity lies in dealing with an eclectic but complimentary variety of issues, all of which relate to elite education. Bennett’s play addresses homosexuality, and literature’s raison d’ être; it analyzes legacies, but also the understandability of the Holocaust; it tries to define money’s role in education while addressing gender neutrality and manliness...
...General Assembly last September, he felt a halo around him and for "those 27 or 28 minutes, the leaders of the world did not blink ... as if a hand was holding them there and it opened their eyes to receive" his message. He believes that the Islamic revolution's raison d'ętre is to prepare the way for the messianic redemption, which in his eschatology is preceded by worldwide upheaval and chaos. How better to light the fuse for eternal bliss than with a nuclear flame...
...this spring (probable asking price: $500 to $1,000), and computer makers are scrambling to produce new PCs equipped to play DVD-ROMs. What's less clear is how quickly Hollywood studios will clamber aboard the DVD bandwagon and release their movies on the untested new format. DVD's raison d'etre, after all, is to send VHS tapes and laser discs, the studios' cash cows, the way of all eight-tracks. This week's blizzard of dvd-themed press releases at the Las Vegas show should help reveal how quickly the new kid on the block might become...
This in itself is not enough. If Woodbridge is to remain in any way essential, it needs to get back to basicsand get active. If, as its constitution states, Woodbridges raison dtre is the support and enhancement of the international community at Harvard, then it needs to sponsor more eventsdances, cultural lectures and concertsto this end. The newly elected leaders of Woodbridge must make more of an attempt to facilitate interaction between American students and their international peers...