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...search committee, both in looking at applications and in interviews, Veneziano said he was searching for a “willingness to embrace what Harvard stands for [academics and athletics].” That, he said, is as important for the job as enthusiasm and time to commit...
Massachusetts law stipulates that a police officer may commit an individual suspected to be mentally ill to hospitalization against his or her will only in an emergency situation—if the officer suspects that the individual is a hazard to himself or herself, or to others...
Outside, the aspiring mob members read and commit their instructions to memory. They are to head toward the greeting-card section of the Coop along a route of their choosing. Whatever their path, however, they must arrive at exactly...
...without state sponsorship - the very idea, she says, is an invention of wussy Clintonites afraid to make war on state sponsors. But as Perle says, her hypotheses can be tested: Presumably, if al-Qaeda was a front for Iraqi intelligence, and such groups need a state behind them to commit transnational terror, then the fact that Saddam's regime no longer exists would presumably leave us safe from al-Qaeda. Need I say more...
Washington's strategy has been to increase the cost of North Korean defiance. Last week hard-liners within the Administration tried to commit the U.S. to giving asylum to large numbers of North Korean refugees. (They already have guarantees of safety in South Korea.) The intent: to encourage the sort of mass exodus from the North that helped bring down East European communist regimes in 1989. At the same time, 10 countries have agreed to join the U.S. in cracking down on the export of weapons technologies from North Korea, and the Administration is trying to stop the North...