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...change" in Baghdad, and are wary of being used simply to set up a legitimate pretext for an invasion already in the works. At the same time, of course, the Security Council members are also painfully aware of Washington's power to implement President Bush's implied threat to render the UN irrelevant by simply ignoring it. And no matter how deep their differences with Washington, they'd rather see the U.S. remaining inside the international system than formally tossing it out to pursue a Pax Americana. Somewhere between those two impulses is a compromise, originating with France but with...
...tried to render the texts in a coherent fashion to make a mosaic that brought them all together,” Cooman said...
...woke up one day and realized that drinking was undisciplined and bad and that not drinking was disciplined and good. Few choices in life are so clear, so difficult, but the hardest thing he ever did also worked for him. This ally suggests that Bush's decision to render his own life into a fundamental choice feeds his tendency to apply a similarly rigid template to other difficult calls...
...deal appropriately with the serious problem of sexual assault on campus. Senior tutors, assistant deans of freshmen, and deans who serve as investigators, interviewers and judges in sexual assault cases have repeatedly complained that without training on the subject, they feel ill-equipped to ask the right questions or render responsible decisions...
...pledge has the comfort of custom about it, and should certainly be preserved. It's too bad the highly dispensable "under God" language cannot be quietly dropped. Fat chance, of course. Still, the ideal solution, I think, would be to render unto Caesar an affirmation of flag and country but to keep God in our hearts, where he belongs, and out of politics. Christ himself was scathing about pharisaical display. Don't try to nationalize the deity; it's a little cheap. The Almighty likes to work on a case-by-case basis anyway. I'm all for patriotism...