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...Bush was reminded of that twice last week. Rehavam Ze'evi, an Israeli Cabinet minister, was assassinated by Palestinian gunmen, an act to which Prime Minister Ariel Sharon reacted as if it were the attacks on Washington and New York City. U.S. officials frankly admit that their power to restrain Israeli fury is less than it was during the Gulf War, 10 years...
...open the pages of the eminently mainstream Crimson last Monday, then using Douthat’s logic, we would think that most Harvard students are profoundly ignorant of and biased against Islam. But, we know that columnists and reviewers speak for themselves, and newspapers often don’t restrain them when they push the margins of decency...
...Breathing and alive.” The bouncy “I Got Something” is possibly the best cut on the album: It is bluesy and clearly owes a smidgen to Gottesman’s time in a funk band (though someone clearly managed to restrain the bassist). The understatement of the obligatory wah-wah pedal is characteristic of the album, and is one of its charms, allowing the most juicy elements (such as the finely wrought chorus on “Into the Morning”) stand out in the light they deserve. An album for sensitive...
...Presumably Arafat will find it easier to persuade Hamas and Islamic Jihad to restrain themselves rather than to face a potential confrontation on his own streets if he tries to shut them down entirely...
Professor of Philosophy Richard G. Heck, Jr. recently circulated an online petition that requests the U.S. government to restrain from unneccessary and violent retaliation against the terrorists. He teaches a philosophy course entitled Truth...