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...hedged on the specifics and resorted to the broad brush. The U.S., he said, will soon announce loans of $8.5 billion to Turkey--which, he said, amounts to a "bribe" (though such financial aid is a traditional way of rewarding allies). Kennedy's aides insist his broad point is valid: that Bush's policy has compelled the U.S. to buy support from other countries, and Congress still has no clear picture of how money is being spent in Iraq...
What makes things more difficult, however, is achieving a balance. No matter how many clubs or classes there are, there are still more people, each of whom is a unique and slightly insane combination of hopes, irrational fears, valid fears, goals and contradictions. As a result, either our environments or our goals must be compromised—or both, as in the case of my neighbor, who has done rather severe damage to her house, but has not created anything terribly similar to a countryside life...
...Massachusetts Homeowners Coalition, which hopes to keep the rent control issue off the November ballot, said 1,500 of the group’s signatures aren’t valid, according to Hoerst. The election commission will decide at a hearing tomorrow whether to accept the signatures...
...faculty look upon the new divisional deans with enthusiasm. With the deans comes an additional bureaucratic layer, which has worried many professors who fear the move may drastically reduce their time with, and access to, Kirby. These concerns are certainly valid, but the role of these new deans—to increase communication and enhance academic initiatives—will mostly likely counteract any potential reduction in access...
...Iraq remains unstable - the debate over political control in Baghdad is a reminder that neither side is willing to give ground on the positions that divided them so sharply before the war. The Bush administration insists that both the reasons for the invasion, and the strategy adopted, remain valid despite mounting domestic concern. But in the eyes of much of the international community, neither the U.S. case for invading Iraq, nor the strategy it has pursued, have been vindicated by events: No weapons of mass destruction have been found; the Iraqis have not exactly thronged the streets to welcome coalition...