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Play a thought experiment on the decision by iran last week to restart the process of uranium enrichment that, under an agreement with the major European powers, it had ceased in 2004. Assume - as many fear - that Iran wants highly enriched uranium not so that it can develop nuclear power, but to build an atomic bomb. Suppose, moreover, that it manages to do so, and that there is no military intervention in Iran of the kind that Israel visited upon Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor in 1981. What would happen next? Somehow or other, in all likelihood, others would seek...
...issue a legal demand to Iran to suspend enrichment work. If all else fails, the U.S. and its allies are likely to pursue "targeted sanctions" against Tehran, such as restricting the regime's access to international financial channels and squeezing its ability to trade and travel. But getting agreement on the nature of sanctions--and avoiding a veto by Russia or China, which both have deep economic interests in Iran--could take months...
...John Rinstein, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, said that while Harvard administrators reserve the right to enter students’ rooms through the housing agreement, this waiver would not permit a fully deputized police force like HUPD to enter rooms without residents’ consent or a warrant...
...don’t think that students even under that agreement have waived all privacy rights,” he said. “What Harvard has retained under the room agreement is to search in specific instances, such as for appliances. But the administrators’ entry can’t be used as a pretext for conducting what is otherwise a law enforcement search that would require a warrant...
...promise of a lucrative partnership, however, helped to ease the reluctancy. Tourism Minister Abraham Hirchson reportedly predicted it would draw as many as 1 million visitors and generate $1.5 billion annually. Robertson and Hirchson were supposed to attend the signing of a formal agreement within the next few weeks. That prospect evaporated after Robertson's remarks. Hirchson is a close friend of Sharon's and one of the founding members of his new Kadima party. The idea of sitting across from the man who had claimed God struck down is friend, says one party briefed on the issue, may have...