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...play a key role in preserving the peace agreement. "Assad's refusal to attend the conference is part of a consistent strategy to use militant surrogates as part of his playing hand in negotiations with Israel," MacLeod says. "This doesn't mean that he will resist efforts to crack down on terrorists, or that he is supporting them more. He is just using this as a political card...
...there is reason for hope. Arafat has moved to crack down on terrorists. Over a thousand Palestinians gathered for a peace rally in Gaza. There is reason to think that if the Palestinian people truly believe in peace and nonviolence that they can yet bring them about...
...Crack! That was the sound of the Christian Right punching my jaw as I walked out of my Adams House room for dinner two weeks ago. Left in the door box was a "newspaper" titled "She's a Child--Not a Choice," printed by the Human Life Alliance of Minnesota Education Fund Inc. The cover was a color close-up of a "16-week-old baby developing in the womb." On the back was stamped: "Distributed by the Harvard-Radcliffe Alliance for Life." At least that solves the mystery of how it arrived...
...less from Washington" mantra is not an empty slogan. Alone among candidates, the soft-spoken Tennessean goes out of his way to dampen what voters expect. No law passed in Washington, he says, can fix the social pathologies that leave eighth-graders gunned down in a Florida school or crack babies crying in a Michigan clinic. Only community action can. He wants citizens "to get off their butts...
...rerack" their rods in ever more tightly packed pools. Sandwiched between the rods is a neutron-absorbing material called Boraflex that helps keep them from "going critical." After fuel pools across the country were filled in this way, the industry discovered that radiation causes Boraflex to shrink and crack. The NRC is studying the problem, but at times its officials haven't bothered to analyze a pool's cooling capacity before granting a reracking amendment. "It didn't receive the attention that more obvious safety concerns got," says Inspector General Norton...