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...scheduled to be held this week. Simply put, the South does not perceive Kim Jong Il to be as dangerous or unreasonable as the U.S. does. In fact, many South Koreans view America as the aggressor?Bush's inclusion of North Korea in his "axis of evil" was tantamount to telling Kim Jong Il his days as dictator, like Saddam Hussein's, are numbered. That echoes North Korea's oft-repeated line that America, despite assurances to the contrary from U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, plans to invade and so the North must develop nuclear weapons as a matter...
...political considerations: many, including Gore himself, insist the only way the Democrats - and the rest of the country - can escape the memory of the 2000 election is by crafting an entirely fresh ticket. And there are Democrats to whom the idea of bringing Gore back for another round was tantamount to surrender to a Bush reelection drive...
...Eliot, Class of 1910, as anti-Semitic, professing himself a “Philo-Semite” for whom calls for Israel’s destruction are perfectly compatible with his self-proclaimed credentials as an opponent of anti-Semitism—this because, in his view, Zionism is tantamount to racism. Paulin declares: “You are either a Zionist or an anti-Zionist. Everyone who supports Israel is a Zionist.” This would be a meaningless statement, rather like saying “You are either a carnivore or a vegetarian. Everyone who eats meat...
Valenti stressed that downloading copyrighted information is tantamount to theft...
...saddened and concerned by President Summers’ remarks concerning the situation in Israel, the attempt by several faculty members to voice an opinion and his apparent perspective that voicing an opinion about divestment is tantamount to a claim of anti-Semitism. I did not sign the petition that many of my friends and colleagues signed. But my absence from this list was not because I felt it was anti-Semitic. My closest friends signed the petition. They are not anti-Semitic. I am a Jew. If I had signed, I wouldn’t be anti-Semitic either...