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...offer was reportedly made in Paris by Yuli Vorontsov, the Soviet Ambassador to France, to his Israeli counterpart, Ovadia Sofer. According to Israeli radio, Vorontsov called the breaking of relations a serious mistake and "an emotional reaction" that the Soviet Union has come to regret. In Washington, Administration officials welcomed the Soviet proposal, even though the U.S. remains opposed to a greater Soviet role in the region...
...contributing to our personal and national safety. It's corny--wave the flag--but it's true." As for those who dropped the Hiroshima bomb, she says that guilt or conscience ought not to be the consideration. "If a policeman shoots a felon, there's no guilt, only regret. You just wish the world had been different...
...sixth grade, most of us didn’t have to deal with the regret that inevitably follows taking one too many shots. We didn’t know about beer pong, or funnels, or Everclear, choosing instead to spend our time at awkward dances and single-sex sleepovers. But while we were crowding around the punch bowl in the school gym and playing video games in our basements, 15-year-old Rachel E. Porter was stuck watching drunken friends throw up all over themselves. She describes a particularly “traumatic” incident at the annual Dunster...
...deeply regret these problems persisted and were not remedied earlier,” Columbia President Lee C. Bollinger wrote in a letter to the Columbia community. “Within the next two weeks, we will announce specific actions that address recommendations in the report...
...relatives had headed for high ground. The local government was paralyzed from the start. "The officials were in a panic that there would be another tsunami," says Bachtiar Chamsjah, Indonesia's Minister for Social Affairs. "They all left their work." Some locals who fled to higher ground came to regret it for another reason. Housewife Yohanna Duha and her 20-year-old daughter ran to the hills after the earthquake. When they returned home in the morning, their house was damaged but standing, and looters had taken everything they could?"every penny I had in my drawer," says Duha...