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What will bring an end to the Chechen conflict is the same thing that is fueling it right now--public opinion. Yet, neither the international community, nor Russians themselves, will be able to accurately assess the true dangers of the current Chechen conflict without truthfulness on two fronts...
...Coley stressed that no hard conclusions could be drawn about the incidence of sexually transmitted disease (STD) at Harvard based on the statistics. He said the small number of gonorrhea cases makes it difficult to assess the disease's prevalence on campus...
...make too big a deal of it or to talk about that too much is exacerbating their problems instead of helping them." Still, he holds his ground. "Single parents might do well to be aware that there are a lot of risks in step relationships, and they should assess new partners in part with that in mind...
...Chechen villages -- for the benefit of a live TV audience for the first time in Russian history - and Western journalists reported that some 50 refugees had been killed in a Russian rocket attack on a convoy heading for the border. But U.N. moves to send a humanitarian team to assess the needs of refugees from the conflict, and President Clinton's exhortation to the two sides to "stop fighting and start talking," signaled that Moscow may be unable to keep what it considers a domestic matter from becoming an international concern. "Russian foreign policy recognizes the U.N. as the final...
However, this year, I decided that I could not truly assess the council and feel right about harshly judging its activities until I first became involved. It simply isn't right to give up on an institution because of limited information and a pervasive campus prejudice. In order to be fair in criticizing, I decided I must first try to change what I perceived to be wrong...