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...expect a bleary-eyed Albright to be waving a peace agreement in the Geneva dawn. But if the carrot of an end to sanctions has indeed convinced Baghdad to allow UNSCOM to continue its work, the Iraq crisis may yet be resolved without any missiles being launched...
...been the first U-2 flight since Saddam Hussein ordered U.S. weapons inspectors out of Iraq last Friday, and the fact that it passed without incident was a sign of emerging d?tente. What Madeleine Albright described as a "little carrot" for Saddam ? allowing Iraq to sell more oil in exchange for food in return for allowing the inspectors back ? was being discussed by American, British, French and Russian officials...
Buddha taught the use of compassion to relieve suffering. Ritual, dogma and temples are irrelevant, red herrings on the path to insight. Karma and reincarnation are merely clever carrot-and-stick tools for people who need them. Most of us can do without them. TOM KOWALSKI Atlanta...
...research is closely tied to my teaching," he says. "I'm very much more a carrot person than a stick person, finding out ways in which they like to learn rather than threatening them. I felt it's very important for students not to become discouraged...
...administration has degrees of freedom in pushing people out. It's partly the carrot, partly the club," Levins says, with the retirement bonus being the carrot and changes in space being the club...