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...Franco-German alliance, manifested last week by the joint declaration of French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder of their opposition to military action. If Britain is yoked to the U.S. in an unpopular, messy war, it is France and Germany - not Britain - that will shape the future...
Wolfowitz has built a following, thanks to his prescience. In the 1970s he advocated bolstering the U.S. military presence in the Persian Gulf to deter Iraq from someday invading Kuwait or Saudi Arabia. He helped shape the hard-line Reagan-era policies toward the Soviet Union that conservatives credit with ending the cold war. In 1990 he called for pre-emptive strikes against enemy states trying to obtain weapons of mass destruction--precisely the shift in U.S. strategy that the Administration announced last fall. But other proposals by Wolfowitz have been dismissed as reckless--such as his suggestion during...
...Dalhousie team came up with some alarming figures. From 1986 to 2000, nearly all shark species may have declined at least 50%, with the populations of some approaching collapse. Tiger-shark populations are down 65%, the legendary white shark has fallen 79%, and the hammerhead is in the worst shape of all, down a staggering...
...before all peaceful alternatives have truly been exhausted—not only sets a bad precedent of unilateralism for the 21st century, but it will seriously damage the world’s opinion of America for decades to come. Next week, as we shop for classes and consider the shape of our schedules next semester, we must not forget to consider the shape of the world after graduation. We have just as much at stake in that world as our parents. We must make our pleas louder, and our president ought to listen...
...Time: What about Mongolia stands out in your memory? Stewart: The size of it, the scale of it. It's like what the American West once was. There are no roads, no fences, no ditches, no houses. It's just an elemental landscape, a stripped landscape, a landscape of shape and form and size and sweep. That's what lingers with me, the romance...