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After his invitation to Harvard was withdrawn last week, the Department of English and American Literature and Language decided Tuesday to re-invite Paulin, drawing both criticism and plaudits...
...drastic plan to merge nearly half of the city’s 15 elementary schools was withdrawn last night after a week of protest from hundreds of Cambridge residents...
...government. On Thursday, the Home Office issued a statement saying that terrorists may "try to develop a so-called dirty bomb or some kind of poison gas. Maybe they will try to use boats or trains, rather than planes" in an assault. But within an hour the statement was withdrawn, replaced by a less frightening one. "If al-Qaeda could mount an attack upon key economic targets, or upon our transport infrastructure, they would," it now read. "If they could inflict damage upon the health of our population, they would." Other European intelligence agencies were less equivocal. In Berlin, Germany...
...concert was cancelled at the last minute by the administration, but this setback occurred after a year-long campaign to gain the administration’s approval. In fact, such approval was finally granted; the bands were booked and the venue secured. Unfortunately, permission for the concert was retroactively withdrawn days before tickets were scheduled to go on sale, forcing these efforts to be entirely discarded. Likewise, work on our new voting system began last June, after a bill for a technology revamp was passed in full council in the spring. Council leaders tried to maintain communication with the administration...
...Hussein this week came from erstwhile true-blue American hero Scott Ritter. Familiar to Americans as the rock-jawed Marine intelligence officer who stood up to Saddam's bullies in 1998 while serving with the UN inspection team, and got himself singled out for expulsion even before UNSCOM was withdrawn, Ritter was back on America's TV screens this week, but with a dramatically different message: President Bush had no proof of any new weapons of mass destruction threat emanating from Iraq, Ritter says, and he was lying to the American people to get them to go to war. Once...