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Last weekend's Bali bomb blast that killed upwards of 180 people is a bloody "wake up call" to Indonesia to get tougher on the terrorists in the archipelago. So says Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of defense and arguably the Bush administration's most ardent champion of Indonesia. "We've been talking with them for a long time about the seriousness of this problem, and the need to take it on seriously," said Wolfowitz, who served as the U.S. ambassador in Jakarta from 1986 to 1989. "While they've made progress, there's still obviously a lot more...
...Administration officials issued a preview of the agenda for today's meeting through a series of public and private communications with the Israelis over the last few weeks. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, one of Sharon's most ardent defenders in the Administration, has said it would be in "Israel's overwhelming best interests" not to launch any retaliatory strikes against Iraq. Through his aides, Bush also demanded last month that Israeli forces lift their siege of Yasser Arafat's compound and hold back in the West Bank and Gaza. It's working: Israeli officials now say they may withdraw...
...monologue barely makes a splash in the sea of bells, buzzers and whistles at the annual trade show of the amusement-machine business, which covers everything from video arcade games to kiddie rides and coin-operated pool tables. But Stern is an ardent voice of optimism in a field that has not been all fun and games lately. Hurt by growing competition for the entertainment dollar, revenues for the industry have flattened: $6 billion in 2001, an uptick from $5.8 billion the year before but off from $7.1 billion in 1991, according to trade journal Vending Times. Arcade games took...
...some of Sulak's most ardent defenders also come from within the medical profession. "I'm a convert to her way of thinking," says Dr. Gerald Joseph Jr., an obstetrician-gynecologist in Springfield, Mo., and district officer at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. "There's no question her program is 100% medically accurate and responsible." Indeed, doctors have a hand in all aspects of the Worth the Wait curriculum. Not only do they train health educators from participating schools, but either a doctor or medical student also gives a guest lecture to students during the semester...
...deeply upsetting that The Crimson editorial board has chosen to overshadow and in effect dismiss the council’s ardent efforts with overblown rhetoric and disrespect toward council members’ hard work (Editorial, “Communication Failure, Again...