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Clark said that whether he would personally sanction a legal challenge by individual students or professors depended on the case’s arguments...
Bush, effectively, has committed himself to engaging those arguments. He has done so not because he absolutely has to--most observers think the awesome American armed forces, on their own, could overthrow Saddam--but because seeking allies makes sense. For America to act alone against Iraq, without U.N. sanction, would risk a backlash against American interests around the world. "There's no doubt," says a European diplomat, "that it would be better to do it in company." Thus Bush's speechwriters, before his U.N. appearance, were considering a heavy internationalist tone. ("He'll be Mr. Multilateral," says an aide...
...Bush, effectively, has committed himself to engaging those arguments. He has done so not because he absolutely has to - most observers think the awesome American armed forces, on their own, could overthrow Saddam - but because seeking allies makes sense. For America to act alone against Iraq, without U.N. sanction, would risk a backlash against American interests around the world. "There's no doubt," says a European diplomat, "that it would be better to do it in company." Thus Bush's speechwriters, before his U.N. appearance, were considering a heavy internationalist tone. ("He'll be Mr. Multilateral," says an aide...
...making this choice is refreshing, the University should have challenged the Air Force’s interpretation of the Solomon Amendment, the federal statute in question. For the last decade, recruiters were allowed to come to campus when invited by student groups, but the law school did not sanction their visits. This mutually beneficial arrangement simultaneously allowed the law school to uphold its non-discrimination policy and permitted recruiters to maintain a presence on campus. Even temporarily allowing military recruiters to visit while the litigation was underway in order to keep the funding would have preferable to capitulating without...
...with a Solomon Amendment sanction hanging over its head, Harvard has blinked and decided to comply with the military rather than risk losing $328 million in annual federal funding. The U.S. government has cracked a financial whip, and Harvard has reflexively jumped...