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...accusing Bush of silencing them. The absurd scene made a strong impression on New Hampshire voters to whom Bush had been trying to sell himself as "a President we won't have to train." If he could not cope with so minor a contretemps, voters wondered, how would he react in an international crisis...
Except for the few who live off-campus or have grown up near the square, we all return to the 02138 zip code. Yet we rarely allow ourselves time to react to the Square as we react to our hometowns...
...course, the general principle that we should back peoples rather than governments does not offer any precise guidelines for policy makers dealing with immediate crises like Afghanistan. On the other hand, its implementation should diminish the likelihood of our continually facing "Afghanistans;" that is, constantly having to "react' to situations which are already well beyond our control. If beginning with the Arab-Israeli conflict seems overly ambitious, this is justified by the gravity and potential dangers of that particular situation at the real level, and by the fact that at the symbolic level, the value in the Arab and Muslim...
...yellow) would light up. Having been taught to recognize the color, Jill, moving back in front of Jack, would depress a key identified by a letter representing that color. If Jill correctly chose red, for example, by pressing the R key, the key would light up, and Jack would react by depressing a Thank you key in his cubicle. That would give Jill a few grains of feed...
However the Soviets react, the U.S. has no alternative but to boycott the Moscow Games, even if it does so in the company of only a few other countries. If the U.S. were to participate in the Games, the Kremlin would take it as an abject confession of American weakness, of an absence of will. The Soviets would read it as supine acquiescence. American responses to Soviet military adventurism are now limited; to decline to exercise the powerful option of an Olympic boycott would be an act of diplomatic negligence...