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Against this backdrop, Israel faced anew a quondam quandary: either it could pursue the West??€™s vain hope that Arafat would work for peace, or it could write him off and fight terrorism alone. Having endured suicide bombings of a scale that the United States would never stomach, Ariel Sharon chose the latter. America should have supported its ally. Instead, motivated by the highly questionable view that restraining Sharon would win Arab support for U.S. action against Saddam Hussein, President Bush scolded Sharon for doing in Palestine what America did in Afghanistan; and in so doing, Bush vitiated...
...statement released this afternoon, Summers said West??€™s departure will be a loss to Harvard...
...West??€™s decision ends months of speculation about whether he would leave, following a conversation in the fall with University President Lawrence H. Summers which West describes as disrespectful. During that conversation, Summers reportedly criticized West for focusing on outside activities—like recording a rap C.D. and working on political campaigns—rather than his scholarship...
...West??€™s departure is a blow to the Afro-American studies department, which is also losing to Princeton next year K. Anthony Appiah, Carswell professor of Afro-American studies and of philosophy...
...Weiler said that West??€™s assistant told him earlier this week that West would likely pick up the petition Tuesday night or yesterday morning...