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...certain, of course. Despite Meles' saber-rattling speech to parliament in June, in an interview with Time he described times in the past when his party forced him to adopt a more aggressive line with Eritrea than he would have preferred. "There were a number of times when I found myself in a minority and implementing decisions I was uncomfortable with." Asked what is his prime motivation, he answers: "It has always been fear." During the years of famine, it was "fear that this nation, which was great 1,000 years ago ... may be on the verge of total collapse...
...democratic opposition leader and a rare independent member of the Duma, maintains that since the U.S. started this controversy by walking out of the ABM Treaty in 2002, there is a grain of truth in Putin's assertion that Russia was forced to respond. But Ryzhkov sees Putin's saber-rattling as "primarily an election-year message to the country: 'Your leader won't budge, no matter who formally becomes next President'." Polls show that this line works, Ryzhkov says: the Russians really...
...Kennedy valued the Constitution as the foundation for our laws, while Bush has trampled it. Our next President must be highly knowledgeable of domestic issues and adept at foreign diplomacy to save us from ruin on both fronts. The next President should be an intellectual, not a saber rattler...
Addiction is such a harmful behavior, in fact, that evolution should have long ago weeded it out of the population: if it's hard to drive safely under the influence, imagine trying to run from a saber-toothed tiger or catch a squirrel for lunch. And yet, says Dr. Nora Volkow, director of NIDA and a pioneer in the use of imaging to understand addiction, "the use of drugs has been recorded since the beginning of civilization. Humans in my view will always want to experiment with things to make them feel good...
...John Harvard, Jedi Knight"—McNamara reminded the audience of the friends and teachers who have groomed the Class of 2007, members of the "best Jedi Academy in the galaxy". As he stepped back from the microphone to show off a few of his real-life light-saber moves, McNamara said, in Latin, "Harvard University is giving us the Force...use your new weapons wisely, my fellow Luke Skywalkers...