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...sentiments and actions bringing individuals together, providing support and inspiration. Community cannot be mandated; it must be encouraged. Students must be involved in the process of community-building, especially as they bear much of the responsibility for making it vibrant. A community effort will fail if it does not consult and involve its members...
UNITED STATES Bush Makes It Official: Goodbye, ABM Treaty President George W. Bush ended months of speculation by announcing that the United States would definitely pull out of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. Bush said he would continue to consult Moscow as well as U.S. allies, but that the timing of the withdrawal would be "convenient to America." Earlier in the week, Undersecretary of State John Bolton denied he had issued an unofficial deadline to Moscow to agree to changes in the treaty before President Putin meets with Bush in November. Withdrawal from the ABM Treaty, considered the cornerstone...
...days of August are the perfect time to do a messy-room overhaul. Even parents who didn't learn tidiness as children can acquire the skill now and share it with their own children. For in-depth instruction, consult one of the books or websites listed at the bottom of this page. For a crash course, read...
...missile defense, the administration is sending mixed messages. The White House will consult with allies and erstwhile adversaries, but at the same time insists that it will scrap the current framework of arms control treaties if those allies don't consent to the scheme. That, and the administration's rejection of a slew of smaller agreements on issues ranging from small arms to biological weapons has sent a message that Washington doesn't care much about any rules except...
...some kind of uncanny coincidence, that kids are doing this well despite the way they are being raised rather than because of it. Maybe virtue is their form of adolescent rebellion against parents who indulged every vice. Or it could be that the get-down-on-the-floor, consult- the-child, share-the-power, cushion-the- knocks approach isn't entirely wrong-headed. Perhaps those tendencies have done a lot of good for kids, and what's called for is not a reversal but a step back from extremes...