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...that people don't learn more concrete lessons at Harvard. Members of Harvard's nine final clubs learn to be sexist, elitist snobs. Writers for rightwing publications learn new ways to rationalize their irrational hatred of homosexuality. Junior professors learn to take out short-term leases on their homes...
Amid promises of a short-term appointment, Rosovsky agreed to return to his old post after A. Michael Spence, then-dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), suddenly announced plans to resign in April...
...Such short-term measures may be all that can be accomplished, but they are not the comprehensive attack on the deficit that is necessary. The President, according to a White House official, "doesn't want to spend his political capital on some budget-balancing crusade when he might need it" to rally support for a prolonged American military presence in the gulf. Democrats too may have found the crisis atmosphere an excuse for postponing action on the deficit, which would require sharp reductions in popular domestic entitlement programs like Medicaid and farm subsidies...
...military support. Those who stand against Saddam could be stripped of their nationalist credentials back home, as traitors to the Arab cause -- or fall under Saddam's tanks as Kuwait did. The anguish of these leaders was evident as they groped to balance long-term strategic interests against short-term political aims...
With no plausible short-term military options, the response of the West, led by the U.S., can initially be only economic. American diplomats set to work last week at the United Nations and in world capitals to produce a resolution imposing comprehensive sanctions. The object is to keep Iraq from selling oil and buying arms. The Security Council, reflecting the new amity between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, resolved that Iraq must withdraw or face further international action...