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Should the U.S. maintain a larger military presence in the Middle East than before the war in order to protect friendly nations and safeguard vital U.S. interests, such...
...unconscionable silence reflected a recurring problem of his foreign policy. The White House apparently believes the public will not understand decisions taken for hard- boiled reasons of national interest; it thinks those reasons must be given a pious cloak. The U.S. launched the gulf war in part to safeguard oil supplies, in part to protect allies and punish a naked act of aggression -- all of which should have been moral enough. But Bush in addition preached a crusade against a demonized butcher of Baghdad, as if Washington would settle for nothing short of Saddam's departure or demise. That...
This week the WWF will release a report based on the investigation that paints a grisly picture of what is happening to China's stock of rare animals. "The coast is crawling with trade," says the 25-year-old investigator, whose name has been withheld to safeguard future projects. "Anything I wanted they could get and could get within a week. All I had to do was order." ; China, she adds, "is in grave danger of forever losing species that have their homes nowhere else in the world...
...than they would to a central pool. And we don't doubt that ambitious moves towards centralization of University authority will be vigorously opposed by independent centers of power (the Business School, Law School and Medical School) eager to protect their own prerogatives. But we urge President Rudenstine to safeguard the interests of underfunded schools whenever possible, and to challenge the prerogatives of the monoliths whenever necessary...
...Barber, Harvard sociobiologist Edward O. Wilson and Jeane Kirkpatrick, former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. The reason for such interest, says Clark's Sommers, is that liberals as well as conservatives now worry about an "environment of intimidation" that has forced some professors to tape their lectures as a safeguard against bias charges. "It's the opposite," she says, "of what a university should...