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...resolutions, the international community would have no choice but to authorize an invasion to enforce its own writ. UN authorization would also create essential political cover for some skeptical allies to sign on for an invasion. That meant the starting point was to send UN arms inspectors back to ascertain whether Iraq has indeed continued to develop weapons of mass destruction. While that point is broadly agreed, the breakdown has been over the terms of those inspections, and how to proceed if they're blocked, with the Russians and French leading a Security Council majority leery of being used simply...
Mass. Hall sources have been unable to ascertain whether University President Lawrence H. Summers will accept FM’s offer to play an informal match of doubles tennis, whether he has even heard about FM’s offer to play an informal match of doubles tennis or, for that matter, whether he has ever heard of FM Publisher Kenyon S.M. “Backhand” Weaver...
...second home” on campus was being moved without warning. The decision by the provost displayed a clear disregard for the input of students who have been directly affected. Moreover, as of Columbus Day, a Sept. 18 letter sent by alums to the provost seeking to ascertain his reasoning behind the decision has yet to receive a response. It would be a great shame for Harvard to be eclipsed by Cornell, Dartmouth or Stanford in the study of Native American communities, but it would be a greater shame for the University to turn its back on its own Native...
...requires parties to a civil action to sign a statement of truth - he is unlikely to face a perjury prosecution. But that doesn't mean he can breathe easily. As Stephens points out, "one of the lines of investigation the New Statesman's lawyers might undertake is to ascertain whether the documents in the original cases reveal a deception being perpetrated. If that were the case, it would be open to them to bring a private prosecution." Court filings relating to the original actions were hurriedly unearthed last week from storage facilities, but New Statesman lawyer Bindman says that...
...translation services had been used in the past to attempt sexual compromise. I subsequently wrote a series of reports that said this did not appear to be the case in Votkinsk. In fact, because of the human intelligence work I did in the Soviet Union I was able to ascertain that the girls were actually dissatisfied with the Soviets. They showed a tendency to speak out against the KGB to the U.S. inspectors...