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...solution seems to be making sure that those who are still above water stay way above--maybe in a yacht--while those who are not, either drown, or if they can, save themselves, by themselves. Not all, or anything close to it, is lost, but America should not lose sight of itself. It must design more life preservers and be more generous in doling them...
...area around the stadium is the sight of the most significant modern architecture at Harvard and the potential for demolition by Harvard of a major architectural firm's structure is a situation of the utmost gravity in terms of respect for architecture," said Margaret Floyd, an author of a book on Harvard architecture and a professor of architectural history at Tufts...
Huffington owes much of her newfound status to Gingrich, who first noticed her on C-SPAN giving a speech at a conservative conference in 1993. (She spoke on the question "Can Conservatives Have a Social Conscience?") It was ideological combustion at first sight, or something like that. Gingrich immediately invited her to speak at a Republican conference a month later. A Republican aide there recalls Gingrich's reaction to the statuesque Greek immigrant: "My clearest recollections were with the rapture in which he held her. He was like a puppy dog." She quickly became a member of Gingrich's group...
...been a perfect organization. However, it is the only worldwide forum of its kind. We should not abandon it because of petty administrative problems and thereby lose sight of its higher ideal of international peace. And until a Congress representing 50 states can run perfectly without wasteful spending and sluggishness, it can hardly expect perfection from a U.N. representing 185 sovereign nations...
...shows up on the U.N.'s moral ledgers. With the debacle of Bosnia, in which a "protective" contingent of Blue Helmets could scarcely protect itself, respect for the institution as peacekeeper went into nearly full eclipse. A world that once saw U.N. personnel as angels of redemption witnessed the sight last December of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali enduring jeers on the streets of Sarajevo. Earlier last year, the peacekeeping sentinel sat on his hands as a volcanic outbreak of bloodshed in Rwanda engulfed half a million people. What appears now to be a prospect for peace in Bosnia...