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...Winners GERRY ADAMS Sinn Fein leader scores I.R.A. disarmament, $570,000 book deal. Publishers, however, balk at his proposed title: So We Bombed a Few Pubs NASA Long-suffering agency's Odyssey finally orbits Mars. Of course, Martians have been living among us and mutilating cattle for decades SADDAM HUSSEIN Iraqi dictator sends conciliatory e-mail to U.S. programmer, then gets embroiled in 'N Sync-rules, Backstreet-sucks chat-room debate Losers Elton John Pianist disparages the Dalai Lama's Afghanistan peace pleas. He goes on to disparage Galliano for abandoning the strapless, male ball gown JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE Teen idol...
Governments, unlike terrorists, respond to incentives and balk at threats. Henry A. Kissinger ’50 wrote on Sept. 12 that “any government that shelters groups capable of this kind of attack, whether or not they can be shown to have been involved in this attack, must pay an exorbitant price.” It is very simple. Every regime has a vested interest in its own survival. When America and her allies demonstrate that the Taliban’s tolerance for terror is incompatible with self-preservation, people like Osama bin Laden will become international...
...education: the Core curriculum. Although the administration seeks to broaden students’ perspectives through the Core, it has instead limited the undergraduate learning experience with restricted offerings and prohibitively large class sizes. We celebrate the intensity of learning in the Freshman Seminars for the same reason that we balk at the watered-down courses offered in the Core. Moreover, the increased teaching demands on professors imposed by the expanded Freshman Seminar program may lead to even fewer Core offerings in the future...
With unemployment inching up in the U.S., Washington legislators may balk at any kind of guest-worker reform. But, Castaneda argues, "the economic downturn, for the moment at least, is not affecting the sectors of the [U.S.] economy where Mexican immigration is a factor. We are not hearing about layoffs in hotels or restaurants or the fields of California or the meatpacking plants of Iowa or the flower shops in New York. Companies where Mexican labor is employed are telling us there is no slackening of demand...
...ironic, then, that according to friends, Levy had had two or three affairs with married men before she ever met Gary Condit. Each relationship, her friends say, would culminate in Levy demanding a "real" life with her paramour - who would inevitably balk and push her away...