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...boycotts of Israeli academics fulfill none of the goals laid out by the authors of the recent Nature essay. Indeed, the sharp disagreement on the war against terrorism that Israel is fighting belies the ulterior motives of those who wish to take the most extreme measures against it. Having been burned in the past by submitting to political pressures, most scientists see the recent boycott campaigns for what they are: crude anti-Semitic double standards that will only hurt scientific inquiry and academic freedom...
Though Kuo informed the committee she wanted to study women’s non-governmental organizations in developing countries, she concedes an ulterior motive: “I want to go to England and seduce British men with British accents!” She admits to an obsession with Mr. Darcy in “Pride and Prejudice...
However, while it is typical of Palazzo‘s attitude to work on his game from all possible angles, in this case he had an ulterior motive—the jersey itself...
...describes Said as a fine pianist. From his home in New York, Said explains the reason: "I have leukemia." But he says what he and Barenboim have put together is "one of the most important things I have done in my life. The orchestra is nonpolitical and has no ulterior motive. It doesn't pretend to be building bridges and all that hokey stuff. But there it is, a paradigm of coherent and intelligent living together." The €600,000 that it cost to bring the orchestra to Seville for three weeks, along with Barenboim and 10 music teachers from...
...what was the tape's purpose? Professional bin Laden watchers- the sort who know how to read a loosely knotted turban- shrug off the conspiracy theorists who maintain that the recording must have had some mysterious ulterior motive. This was the Hindu Kush version of "What I did on my vacation." Magnus Ranstorp, an al-Qaeda expert at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, speculates that the visiting Saudi wanted to immortalize his meeting with bin Laden and was planning to keep the tape private. Mustafa Alani, a Middle East security scholar at London's Royal United Services Institute...