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...government in Iraq, however, should not be replaced before its work is done. The Iraqi insurgents are only prolonging the occupation. A democratic government in Iraq cannot emerge during a state of chaos. Let Iraq learn from Japan, which was able to achieve postwar greatness because the Japanese exercised restraint during the U.S. Occupation after World War II. Okoro Ndukwe Aba, Nigeria...
EAST TIMOR: But if you want to negotiate in good faith, you have to show restraint. There is a real possibility that when the boundaries are eventually settled, the resources will be gone. If you do not hold the revenue in trust, you are denying us the potential enjoyment of our rights when our claim is upheld...
...adds another dimension to the threat facing Italy and other members of the increasingly shaky U.S.-led coalition. The insurgents seem to be following the example of the March 11 Madrid bombers, and trying to unglue the Western alliance one member at a time. Despite Italy's laudable restraint, they managed to make it look as if people were rushing to meet their demands - images of the march beamed around the Middle East saw to that - and that doesn't bode well; it won't be long before another terrorist issues another ultimatum. Italy has been riveted by the hostage...
...whirlwind of madness enters even his house on the outskirts of the village he manages to keep his back straight and nearly unwinds the whole mad spectacle until it captures and1 breaks him. Hanley’s performance takes Proctor convincingly through all these stages with apt restraint and sufficient fervor. Hanley’s Proctor stands tall among the men of the town, a clear-eyed beacon of sanity and hard-working goodness. Hanley maintains his characters’ moral fiber even as he breaks down and signs his confession...
...elegant, personal 2003 autobiography was titled, somewhat misleadingly, The Majesty of the Law. But her own majestic qualities are refreshingly devoid of regal pretense. They are marked instead by the humility and tolerance and restraint that are the true foundations of the constitutional principles that she endeavors both to balance and to obey. --BY WALTER ISAACSON, president of the Aspen Institute