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...street taught her "how to enjoy music" for its own sake. But after she had moved to New York City and brought out a CD, Dreamland (Atlantic), in 1996, she lost the joy. The mixed blessings of success, the pressure to come up with a second album, the strain that required surgery on her vocal cords were all too much. She dropped out. For five years, she spent time with her family, traveled, explored Christianity and tried to "see how I really feel about things...
...housing across the river than would be abandoned in the Quad, not to increase the student population but to alleviate the housing crunch that plagues Harvards 12 existing houses. New housing in Allston should be used to eliminate partitioned common rooms and over-filled suites, not to add further strain to Harvards academics. As the administration looks to enlarge the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), it should allow these new faculty to teach smaller classes, rather than enlarging the student body in parallel...
...visit to London, warned Wednesday that it would take five or six years before the Iraqi security forces being built by the U.S. were close to being capable of imposing and guaranteeing order in Iraq. Until then, Iraqi security would likely remain the responsibility of U.S. forces, meaning continued strain on U.S. military resources and, as things stand, limited prospects of prevailing against the insurgency for the foreseeable future. Indeed, Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick conceded last Friday that the counterinsurgency war in Iraq could last a number of years...
Having twice been beaten by a strain of Republicanism that we believe is hurting America, the challenge is where to go from here. How to move on without going the myopic, unproductive route of Moveon.org—a group whose Bush-hatred is so blinding that its leadership actually opposed toppling the Taliban...
...These sentiments are reflected in the strain between Washington and Seoul over how to deal with Pyongyang. For decades, South Korea and the U.S. both treated North Korea as the enemy. But in 1997, with the election of pro-democracy activist Kim Dae Jung as President, Seoul changed course. The South's leaders realized that if Kim Jong Il's government collapsed and the North unraveled, the burden of feeding millions of starving North Koreans and rehabilitating the North's crippled economy could devastate South Korea's own economy for years to come. Seoul started to send aid across...