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...West does not need to contact the BSA directly to say thank you. Members of the BSA knew before embarking on such a movement that their efforts to persuade West to remain at Harvard might not be enough to undo the damage University President Lawrence H. Summers did last fall. The petition drive and garnering of student group support across the University was intended to thank West for adding value to this community as only he could. By leaving, West teaches Harvard students an invaluable lesson about self-respect and integrity. There is no doubt that the BSA is better...
...pull his troops and tanks from the West Bank cities and insisted that Israel begin treating the Palestinians with "compassion." Bush called on moderate Arab countries to stop wringing their hands and start helping the Palestinians build their new nation--but also warned Iraq, Iran and Syria not to undo the deal by supporting terror. During the speechwriting sessions, Administration sources told TIME, the dependably hard-line Rumsfeld had pushed most fiercely to include tough language aimed at any nation that might try to "fish in troubled waters," as one aide put it. And these sources noticed during the several...
Even the most effective international observers cannot undo all the damage that Mugabe has caused to the democratic process. But the danger is that these observers can give the elections an air of legitimacy. If they call Zimbabwe’s election fair in light of the corruption and tampering of the past months, they will only be helping to perpetuate Mugabe’s undemocratic reign. Saddam Hussein also knows that world pressure is mounting to remove sanctions from his country, and that if the inspectors do not find anything quickly, they will be under intense international pressure...
...strong ethnic slur. Although the White House later explained that the use of the word was inadvertent, the slip is indicative of the level of attention the Bush administration has given the escalating situation. Effective diplomacy requires words that are chosen carefully, and small missteps can undo the work of days of negotiations. Musharraf was one of four world leaders whose names Bush could not recall during the campaign, and we hope Bush is receiving the information he needs to conduct diplomacy effectively...
...least two years appear somewhat less likely to develop heart disease. But when doctors give vitamin E to patients who already have heart disease, the vitamin doesn't seem to help. It may turn out that vitamin E plays a role in prevention but cannot undo serious damage...