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...speech in Latvia’s capital, Riga, on Saturday, Bush expressed regret for America’s complicity in the 1945 Yalta pact that divided Europe into spheres of influence between the Western allies and the Soviet Union. The president even went so far as to compare the deal, struck by Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin, to the appeasement of Adolf Hitler by western governments before the World War II, and to the 1939 Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact...
These are the kinds of questions that any new Vice President should not be afraid to ask. While doing so, though, this new Vice President must also be willing to play a more active and cooperative role in all facets of UC business than Nichols did. We regret that Nichols’ resignation will deprive the Executive Board of its chief dissenting voice, but the overriding concern will always be the efficient and energetic operation of a council from whose efforts we all benefit...
Finally, a clever political trick vanquished any remaining opponents. Republicans wrapped the ID changes into a bill that provides $82 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. That is the same kind of bill that Senator John Kerry voted for and then against in 2003, to his eternal regret. "There may be some things you don't like [in the bill], but you will vote for it," says Republican Representative Tom Davis of Virginia, one of the architects of the changes, explaining why he thinks it will pass. President George W. Bush has vowed to sign the measure, partly...
...extensive discussions about the pros and cons of leaving the classroom, [but] he doesn’t regret his decision,” says Blinder, who served as Vice-Chairman of the Federal Reserve from...
...look back now on my four years at Harvard with both fondness and regret. I’ve made some great friends that will last a lifetime and grappled with new ideas that continue to challenge me. Yet there are occasions when I can’t help but feel like I wasted my precious time here. I could have worked harder, could have been more involved in various activities, could have left Harvard Square more than a half-dozen times per semester...