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George W. Bush told the nations of the world after Sept. 11 last year that they were either with the U.S. in the war on terror or against the U.S. At the time, the choice for most frontline governments was stark: join up or face the wrath of the world's military and economic superpower. One year on, the war has indeed turned out to be a global conflict. But in Jakarta, local politics may outweigh geopolitics as President Megawati Sukarnoputri's administration last week wrestled over whether to cooperate with the U.S., or risk being labeled a pariah state...
That is no small praise coming from Rose. The 2001unit included First-Team All-Ivy selections Justin Stark and center Jason Hove. More than that, many of the seniors who saw time on the line last season were part of Rose’s blocking group or lived in his dorm—which meant that they were used to each other and intuitively trusted one another...
Many of those keener to engage in armed conflict have presented themselves as making the stark choice between doing something about the perceived threat of the moment, or doing nothing at all. Thus, war is typically portrayed as being an action of last resort. If only this were truly the case. It is not usually the war speeches, but the wider actions of our leaders that belie their reluctance to go to war. Proposals from the left to examine and deal with the root causes of the violence against us are either not taken seriously, or worse, are misrepresented...
Some will say that there are circumstances where stark choices of the sort mentioned above will be inevitable. Surely, then, the best way to face them is in the context of a just multilateralism and international law, with diplomacy and with reluctance to carry out any threat of violence. If the other side of the conflict is a rogue state that needs to be taught the value of justice and cooperation, vigilantism is an odd pedagogical technique. And if war has truly been our stark choice both in Afghanistan and in Iraq, why hasn’t the more impartial...
...works as The Kiss and the bulbous, dismembered forms in Woman Throwing a Stone, which is said to owe a lot to Miró. But after about 10 years he went his own way. Spies was a close friend of both Ernst and Picasso in the 1960s and recalls stark differences. "Ernst was utterly cultivated. I remember he was always reading - poetry, natural science, everything. Picasso? I felt he could have lifted a book to his eyes without opening it and absorbed it through its cover with instant X-ray vision...