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With the end of the cold war, that threshold question was no longer vital. Absent a direct threat to American national security, foreign policy in general disappeared from U.S. political discourse. The past three presidential campaigns--1992, 1996 and 2000--may well have been the most devoid of foreign-policy discussion of any during the 20th century. It stood to reason. If the homeland was secure, if there was no deadly adversary stalking us, who cared what was going on out there...
According to Nancy M. Kinchla, director of telecommunications services in the University Information Systems (UIS) department that runs the online database and prints the phonebook, only a handful of students names go missing each year. Most that are absent have requested that their information be withheld...
Fisher was absent for the last 16 minutes of the half, as she incurred a head injury and retired to the sideline for bandaging. When she came back in the second half, her efforts in pushing the ball up the left side of the field did not go unnoticed...
...extent to which the Bush Administration has been yoked to a UN inspection timetable that could, if Saddam avoids overt confrontation, drag matters on into next February, and even then not produce a definitive case for a UN-sanctioned war. The neo-conservative flagship Weekly Standard warns that absent any self-destructive instinct on Saddam's part, even 100 days from now the most likely outcome of the renewed inspection program will be sufficiently ambiguous to simply make a case for giving the inspectors even more time, further dissipating Washington's regime-change momentum...
...Absent any quid pro quo for seeking an early decision from colleges, I have no doubt that more and more students will be applying Early Action,” Hargadon wrote in an e-mail. “I don’t happen to think that’s a good idea, [but] I recognize that some colleges would simply welcome the resulting increase in their applications, regardless of how serious or well-thought-through such applications...