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While a few of the proposed cuts from the University of Massachusetts budget are sensible—such as replacing admissions books sent to prospective first-years with CD-ROMs at a savings of $60,000—the rest may deal a harsh blow to the academic reputation of the UMass system. Due to Swift’s cuts, deep reductions will have to be made in a wide variety of areas. Library budgets will be slashed; hundreds of journal subscriptions have already been dropped and fewer books purchased. Departmental budgets will also suffer; next year, some...
Last year’s terrorist attack on the World Trade Center turned out to be the true crippling blow to the Cambridge location. Due to the New York store’s proximity to Ground Zero, it had to close for several weeks, preventing it from supporting the Cambridge store...
However, as long as the Bush administration continues to rely on the use of armed force as its principal weapon, the war on terrorism can never hope to deal international terrorism a crippling blow. Instead, Bush must balance military operations with a renewed, long-term campaign directed at the underlying causes of terrorist activity...
...station en route to renewed land-for-peace political negotiations. As a longtime opponent of Oslo and champion of the settlers, that's not an idea the Israeli leader can love. But, of course, it won't come to pass if Palestinian militants continue to blow themselves up in downtown Tel Aviv...
Nuclear weapons are nuclear weapons, regardless of whether they are tactical or strategic. A nuke designed to blow up a city—rather than a state—is still a nuke...