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According to Gross, the committee will not seek to clamp down on student parties or tighten regulations, but will instead address what he perceives to be the social problem of alcohol abuse at Harvard...
...increasingly messy process. Already, Bush administration officials have been working with Israeli security chiefs to set rules for Israel's assassination policy, effectively giving it the green light; soon they may find themselves in the familiar (to the Clinton administration) position of chasing after increasingly reluctant Palestinian leaders to clamp down on militancy...
After police shut down the overcrowded “Mather Lather” foam party in April, students and administrators thought Cambridge might clamp down on future parties...
...long border with Pakistan is considered particularly vulnerable, because insurgents are taking shelter in the tribal areas where the Pakistani government is either unable, or unwilling to clamp down. Taliban recruitment and training occurs relatively openly across the border, reminding journalists of the movement's emergence a decade ago in the madressas of Pakistan. The country is nominally on friendly terms with President Karzai, but it is also well aware that his writ doesn't extend much beyond the palace gate - and also that the Northern Alliance which dominates the government all around Karzai is closely allied to India, whose...
...disappeared in 2000, refusing to be deposed by the prosecutors, showed up in court last week saying he was ready to talk. In some ways, the trial is a punctuation mark on an era of brazen payouts. In the last decade there has been a concerted international effort to clamp down on corporate corruption. The U.S. paved the way in 1977 by making it a crime to bribe a foreign official, and in 1997, 35 nations including France followed suit by agreeing to an O.E.C.D. convention that outlaws such payoffs. But the Elf trial is being prosecuted under the laws...