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...smart high school kids do when they can't win the presidency of an existing club: I started my own. Figuring the best place to begin cleaning up is your own home, I decided to start a committee to decent-ize my own columns, which might, for example, get rid of "whores" in the middle of the preceding paragraph. And the "watch porn" thing in that same paragraph. And the Cinemax stuff...
...hasn't Harvard gotten rid of student loans, like Princeton? Princeton's financial aid program has replaced student loans with grants. Harvard has not followed suit, despite the fact that Harvard's endowment is over twice as large as Princeton...
...giving military support to the Iraqi opposition. During the interview, Powell was clearly cool to that idea. The main group, the exiled Iraqi National Congress, "is not an army," he said, "it's an organization staffed with political types." Although he allowed that it still remains U.S. policy to rid Iraq of Saddam, for now "we're still into a containment period" that could be successful for quite a while. For how long? He wouldn't say, but his analogies - Cuba and the Soviet Union - will surely scandalize hard-liners, who think Saddam could be ousted in a year...
Many music fans support Napster because they believe that the quickest way to rid the airwaves and the world of the studio-created trash that now dominates is to destroy the commercial viability of recorded music. Force everyone back onto the stage, and then we'll see who the real artists...
While U.S. officials like Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld talk of aggressive new strategies to get rid of Saddam, Powell speaks mainly of reinvigorating the sanctions. To do that, he will need to convince Arab and European allies that Saddam is playing and winning a propaganda game by letting his people starve. And to bring the allies back aboard, Powell will need to draw up an approach that reduces civilian hardships while concentrating embargoes on things that count. Powell has taken to saying sanctions are really about ensuring that Iraq complies with 1991 cease-fire agreements...