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...self-interested sense, a United States-brokered compromise on economic reform in Zimbabwe would help restore a tarnished international reputation. One dominant theme in American politics recently has been the failure to negotiate and work with other countries diplomatically. After the infamous “Coalition of the Willing?? touted by the Bush administration before the invasion of Iraq, many nations have grown skeptical of the ability for the United States to organize and spearhead a positive and mutually acceptable agreement among nations. Joining in efforts to revive Zimbabwe’s economy would help ease this skepticism...
...United States’ “coalition of the willing?? invaded Iraq five years ago, one thousand Harvard students walked out of their classes in protest. What has happened since then? In the war, 1.6 million U.S. troops have been deployed. Four thousand of them have been killed and 60,000 have suffered wounds, injuries or serious disease. More than 300,000 servicemen and women have been treated for medical problems at VA hospitals and clinics, including 68,000 diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Hundreds of thousands of civilians have died in Iraq, and millions...
...know is that in all the job searches I have been a part of, ideology and partisanship have never been a factor,” he said. “Harvard looks for the most brilliant and promising, and none of us have been willing??or even tempted—to compromise these for the sake of ideology, partisanship or anything else...
Even so, a spring 2003 survey conducted by REP suggests that the student body is receptive to the idea of a new termbill fee. About 69 percent of the more than 2,000 undergraduates surveyed said they would be “willing?? to pay an extra $25 in room and board to allow for one-fifth of their residence’s energy to come from renewable sources...
...legal action brought under the HRA could easily persuade law schools in D.C. to stop actively cooperating with the military. Moreover, since most of the area law schools seem to oppose military recruiting in principle, they might be willing??once a formal legal challenge were filed, and they faced the prospect of damages and attorney fee awards—to enter into a consent decree prohibiting their active cooperation with military recruiters...