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...Saddam's weapons in different terms. While they know Iraq has residual stocks of chemical and biological weapons left over from its war with Iran, they don't believe Saddam's regime is an imminent threat to its neighbors, much less to the West. Iraq's military is considerably weaker now than when it was driven out of Kuwait a decade ago, they argue, and it is unable even to keep hostile aircraft out of Iraqi airspace in the "no-fly" zones. And Bush administration efforts to posit a link between Iraq and al-Qaeda simply don't hold water...
...feel more identified with America than their home country—a sort of cultural inertia. “Being at Harvard for four years, you develop a lot of personal ties that make you reluctant to leave America, while at the same time your ties to home grow weaker,” says Schaefer, who is teaching English in Shanghai while waiting to hear whether he has been accepted to American graduate schools. “I don’t think it’s the University so much as the fact that you are living...
...tomorrow without having had live batting practice since the fall….Harvard opened the 2002 season a dismal 3-12 record, including an opening weekend sweep at the hands of national-power Rice. The Crimson will have a good chance at a better start this year, facing weaker squads including Valparaiso, Duquesne and Indiana Purdue–Ft. Wayne this weekend to open its season...
...meantime, the Crimson will look to fine-tune some of its weaker areas that were revealed in Saturday’s match...
...while President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair insist that Saddam is hell-bent on stockpiling non-conventional weapons and will inevitably share them with al-Qaeda, the antiwar Europeans see him less as a rising menace than as an incorrigible nuisance who has nonetheless been left substantially weaker by a decade of containment than he was when his armies were soundly thrashed in the sands of Kuwait. The two camps would easily agree that Iraq has failed to account for that proportion of his prohibited weapons not destroyed by UN inspectors in the early 1990s, but the "old" Europeans...