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Theodore Roethke said that going away makes you see more clearly where you are. In many ways, this has been the lesson I have gone across the world to learn. And although our debates over student space and study abroad will continue to sustain efforts for change, it is equally important to look up at the massiveness of Widener and appreciate what hasn?...
...example, Lewis’ “Slow Down” letter reads: “I do not mean to discourage you from high achievement, indeed from the pursuit of extraordinary excellence in your chosen path. But you are more likely to sustain the intense effort needed to accomplish first-rate work in one area if you allow yourself some leisure time...
...Cheney and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld had long warned that reviving the inspection regime could prove a dangerous distraction to the Administration's efforts to get rid of the regime in Baghdad. Yet without going the UN route first, even the loyal Tony Blair might not have been able to sustain his support for a war in the face of overwhelming domestic opposition...
...It’s difficult for the government to sustain that sense of moral outrage that is typical of the war experience,” he says...
...have been determined to avoid. Yet to insist, as they have done, that inspections won't remove the need to oust Saddam carries the risk of undermining the sincerity of Bush's appeal to the UN to enforce its own rules - after all, Washington won't be able to sustain the argument that Saddam was given a last chance to comply if he was also being told that he's toast even if he does. The U.S. may try to make the inspection regime as unpalatable as possible to Saddam, with the consequences of defiance swift and deadly...