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...Adriatic. Dole would compound the damage to the alliance -- and to embargoes that we care about, such as that against Iraq -- by actually breaking the embargo over British and French objections. And embargo busting is more than just damaging. It is by now ridiculous. The Bosnian government, for whose sake we would presumably be breaking ranks, itself gave up the demand 10 weeks ago. In late September the Clinton Administration, under congressional pressure, was quite prepared to go to the U.N. to get the arms embargo lifted. But the Bosnian government, knowing that outside peacekeepers were not about to stick...
...have the somewhat dubious distinction of owning the entire discography of Midori on compact disc, from Bartok to her two recital collections. Naturally, for completion's sake, I picked up her latest offering on Sony Classical--a coupling of the Sibelius violin concerto and Max Bruch's Scottish Fantasy, Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra providing the accompaniment...
Unwilling to vote against a plan she supported and enfeeble the first Democratic president in 12 years for the sake of her own re-election, Margolies-Mezvinsky voted according to conscience...
...choice of his successor will say a lot about the direction in which the Corporation will lead Harvard in the next century. Replacing Slichter with a respected academic would send a powerful message: that Harvard is more committed to scholarship for scholarship's sake than to the bottom line...
...hoped that Harvard students today will, like Gore change their minds many times and question their firmly-held beliefs--that is a sign of intellectual courage. But it also would be best if later, when looking back, we don't trivialize the feelings we had then simply for the sake of political comfort--that is intellectual cowardice...