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...There are also times when unilateral action is an absolute advantage. "One of the best decisions Bush made was to resist the calls to put all of the $2.5 billion in AIDS support into the international fund," says Richard Holbrooke. "It was important that the recipients know the medicine was coming directly from the United States. It has helped our reputation throughout Africa." The next President will have to understand that there are tremendous advantages to be gained from benign unilateralism...
...tyranny--marked the beginning of the U.S.'s role as leader of the free world. Through all the ups and downs of the cold war and through the 1990s and this decade, the memories of World War II have sustained the U.S., as it did its duty in helping resist tyranny and expand the frontiers of freedom in the world...
...hope is that the very best applicants—the ones we seek most assiduously—will appreciate the principled stand we—along with Princeton and the University of Virginia—have taken and will resist the pressure to commit to a college before they are fully ready. Historically such outstanding students have exhibited a level of confidence, maturity, and thoughtfulness that separates them from others who may approach the college admissions process more from a game-theoretic point of view...
Obama says his political consultant David Axelrod has occasionally felt the need to admonish him and his campaign "not to sit in the middle of the town square and set ourselves on fire." And, he says, "there will be those in my party who resist" his ideas. But, he adds, "there's got to be some element of truth telling in this year's campaign because the problems we face are too tough to try to finesse. If we do that, then we may win an election, but we won't solve the problems." In other words, Obama is betting...
Racism and prejudice are real at Harvard. For over 25 years, however, the staff of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations has worked to resist this regrettable fact by taking positive action to promote tolerance on campus. Because an individual student’s memory of Harvard tends to encapsulate only four years, few are aware of the racial tension of the recent past and the Foundation’s role in ameliorating it. Through a wide range of events, the Foundation has not only helped to create a safe place for students of all backgrounds, but also...