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It’s little wonder, then, that spring fever has become a very real phenomenon on campus, one which belies the residual chill in the April air. Much more than just a convenient way of explaining away lapses in concentration, this dizzying feeling of ferment and change seems a very real and very obvious response to what is a most disorientating time of year...
...than a road map. (The U.S. State Department recently dismissed it as "hype.") The late dictator General Ne Win, who seized power in 1962, launched the disastrous "Burmese way to socialism," which bankrupted the country. Now his prot?g? Khin Nyunt is effectively peddling the "Burmese way to democracy." No wonder people have to be press-ganged into cheering...
...officials seemed to have had little inkling of the risks of going after al-Sadr. It had been obvious for months that they could not stabilize Iraq until rabble militias like the Mahdi Army were dismantled. But even some inside the Administration wonder why Bremer acted now, given the imperative of maintaining the tenuous support of the Shi'ite population in the run-up to the handover of sovereignty. "It wasn't our decision," said Brigadier General Hertling, whose units lost eight men in the initial fire fight with al-Sadr's men last week. An aide to an Iraqi...
...films, one right after the other. I had reached the place where I did what I had set out to do--and more. So I just stopped. My movies were much criticized, and at a certain point you say things like, "What's the point?" and you begin to wonder...
...viewpoint "The New Terrorist Threat" [March 22], former presidential security adviser Richard Clarke wrote, "[M]aybe we should be asking why the terrorists hate us." I wonder why this question is not raised more often. In my view, we can stop terrorism only if we get to its root causes. President Bush's war on terrorism will not eradicate the problem but nurture it. For every terrorist killed or arrested, a new one will emerge. We should drop all the rhetoric about the war on terrorism. Such a war cannot be won, as there is no clearly defined enemy...