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...intelligence official says whether Powell can provide sure-shot evidence lies "in the remains-to-be-seen category." Some officials say what they've glimpsed of the Ansar info tends to look convincing only to those predisposed to believe it. Says an intelligence official: "If they're trying to compel people, that's not the place I'd rest my argument." Some in Congress say it will take more than the one-time visit to Baghdad by a one-legged al-Qaeda operative to convince them. Democrats who have heard the pitch tend to agree with Illinois Senator Richard Durbin...
...your item on efforts by universities to compel Christian student organizations to comply with nondiscrimination clauses and allow non-Christians to be leaders [Notebook, Jan. 13]: Will the schools also go after fraternities and sororities for their single-sex policies? Will colleges insist that Jewish groups be open to Muslim fundamentalists? This policy is a consequence of defining discrimination as making decisions on grounds of race, sex, religion, sexual orientation or ability. Everybody can see that exceptions need to be made. Any ideology-based organization must insist that its members and especially its leaders subscribe to its ideology; otherwise...
...more such discoveries ahead. Both the British and the Americans are giving the inspectors intelligence leads (the British claim responsibility for the discovery of the chemical warheads) and believe that the combination of Iraqi intransigence and rigorous, informed inspections will soon convince international opinion that only military force will compel Saddam Hussein to disarm. --By Massimo Calabresi, Meenakshi Ganguly, J.F.O. McAllister and Marguerite Michaels
...CIO’s projections suggest that 14 states will determine the outcome of the 2004 presidential election. If unions compel their members to vote through the AFL-CIO’s methods of listening to members’ priorities and recruiting voters, he said, the union-favored candidate will win by a broad margin...
...party, it would be the G.O.P. Even so, I wish the Republicans would seize the opportunity presented to them by the Trent Lott fiasco to kick their 40-year addiction to race-baiting politics, make good on George W. Bush's promise to reach out to minorities and compel black voters like me to consider the G.O.P. I'm convinced that the Democratic Party's virtual monopoly on the black vote is bad for African Americans. It's the foundation of a demeaning form of political serfdom, a Plantation Politics that we will never be free of as long...