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...rhetoric seems strident, it's only because the situation in St. Bernard Parish is so desperate. Unlike in New Orleans, which is turning on the lights and water spigots, the 67,000 people who live on the peninsula to the east--mostly white and middle-class homeowners--have nothing at all to go back to. Katrina's tidal surge, with waves of up to 25 ft., was so strong, it moved houses--their concrete foundations still attached--down streets. The parish president, who lost his home like everyone else did, figures there is just one habitable house left...
...Harvard helps keep out the gays: By taking such a strident stand against the military, the University is certain to alienate many Americans who have sympathy for gay rights but abhorrence for those who take a throw the baby out with the bath water approach to the defenders of our freedom. Coupled with Harvards desire to keep its relatively liberal student body from considering joining the military and changing its culture, the only result can be that open-serving for homosexuals is pushed further and further into the unforeseeable future...
...Since the election of its new hardline president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran has become increasingly strident over its nuclear ambitions. Ahmadinejad dismissed the European offer as an 'insult,' precisely because it required Iran to renounce the right it enjoys under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to enrich uranium for energy purposes. Tehran's action this week ended its year-long voluntary suspension of uranium conversion activities. Its top representative to the IAEA was combative yesterday, saying that on the anniversary of the bomb that destroyed Nagasaki, the U.S. was in "no position whatsoever to preach to anyone about what they should...
...that came up with a nearly identical offer. Thatcher, who is ideologically opposed to state intervention in private enterprise, insisted that the matter be left to Westland's board and shareholders. Now that he is out of the Cabinet, the dynamic, thick-maned Heseltine, 52, will probably remain a strident Thatcher critic, and, some Tories believe, could eventually challenge her for party leadership. SOUTH AFRICA A Blow for Black Unions...
...Strident nationalism is particularly pervasive among Chinese urban youth. Even as they sip Starbucks lattes or line up at the U.S. embassy for student visas, theybridle at what they view as an attempt by the rest of the world to suppress a budding superpower. "America wants to keep China down," Kang says. "We should all be friends. But America must accept China as a friend on an equal footing." --By Hannah Beech/Beijing...