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...looking to the U.S. for leadership. (The Soviets, who have watched their military protégés take a drubbing in Lebanon, have not found any diplomatic opening to re-establish themselves as honest brokers or benevolent mentors in the region.) Thus the U.S. has been handed a rare opportunity; it can play an active role in persuading Israel, Syria and the P.L.O. to withdraw quickly from Lebanon. The U.S. can also help Lebanon rebuild not only its devastated capital but its political institutions and its army...
...cause, and complaints will pour in. People worry about the press's responsibility to exercise its power with delicacy, the ability of the printed word to wreak havoc in people's lives, the need for social restraints to balance writers' unassailable freedom to publish whatever they want. It's rare, however, that the book industry faces such a conundrum, and rarer still that authorities try to crack down on book publishers. Freedom-of-the-press buffs, then, will do well to watch closely as a French publishing house and two Parisian author-journalists grapple the moral questions surrounding their publication...
Such qualities are rare, especially at a time when sports--which has such potential for excellence--seems wracked by football strikes and collegiate scandals. Indeed you really don't have to be an Oriole fan--or even a sports fan, for that matter--to join in toasting this remarkable man, the Earl of Baltimore...
...answer has largely in Harvard's rare approach to disciplining students. The Administrative Board, which Fox chairs, may seem big and had, but before on jumps to conclusions, it's worth realizing that Harvard's disciplinary policies diverge from those of most schools in ways that make the University both more merciful and less prone to public knock-down drag-outs like Napolitano's. Consider the following two aspects of Harvard's approach to punishment...
...selection of Amin Gemayel-a Maronite Christian, as was his assassinated brother-was the result of a rare display of unity between the country's Christians and Muslims. A lawyer who worked diligently as a member of Parliament for the past ten years to maintain ties with the country's various Muslim and Christian factions, Amin Gemayel has little of the charisma that made his tough-minded brother a popular hero among Lebanon's Christians. Still, Amin is no less dedicated than Bashir was to the main goals of the Phalangist Party: preserving the country...