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...rights of minorities. The most U.S. officials are authorized to say in public is that it would be nice if a future Iraqi government were "willing to live in peace with its neighbors and its own people." That is supposed to be a "signal" to Saddam's successors to tread gently north of the 36th parallel...
...first question is easier. Why Bosnia? For one thing, because it is a victim of evident, if not altogether naked, cross-border aggression. This may sound like a mincing lawyer's brief, but split hairs have become the tightrope that cases for intervention must tread. U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali lashed out two weeks ago at British critics for faulting his lack of deference to the Security Council's big powers. The West's sympathies for Yugoslavia, he suggested, had claimed priority over equally desperate crises in the Third World. Newspapers in London may have rebuked him, he cracked...
...Senate staffer said he expects universitiesto tread carefully on this, remembering that theywere "very embarrassed by the Justice Departmentsuit...
...tread lightly. Decide quickly, but not rashly. You willmiss your friends. You will feel left out of first-year memories at your new school. You may even want to re-transfer to Harvard; one woman I met returned to MIT to study architecture, and one guy went back to Georgetown for a week in a fit of academic and social malaise...
...These are delicate waters on which we tread in terms of constitution rights," said Healy...