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...would reimburse any student stripped of federal financial aid following conviction for drug possession. The “Drug Free Student Aid” provision of the Higher Education Act, passed in 1998, prohibits federal assistance to students convicted of any drug-related offense in an effort to deter drug use among teenagers and young adults. Yale’s decision will effectively nullify the law for Elis by replacing lost federal aid with an equivalent amount of university money...
...school is confident that uncertainty over Allston will not deter potential donors...
...traveling into the Taliban heartland, I normally join a vehicle full of soldiers, about eight or nine men armed with rocket-propelled grenade launchers and heavy machine guns to deter any unwanted attention. The trick I've adopted lately is wearing an Afghan costume and speaking a little Pashtu. It's allowed me to sneak in and out of the front lines with Afghan troops. But it has its downside. Soldiers think I'm Afghan and treat me like an Afghan. I've been manhandled and roughed up, and then I've had to reveal my identity...
...their fighting capability by avoiding full-on clashes with Israeli forces. And even in the course of the current operations in the West Bank and Gaza, Palestinian gunmen and suicide bombers have struck repeatedly inside Israel, as if to send the message that the Israeli raids could not deter them...
...also wise to prepare nuclear weapons to be used against underground bunkers that cannot be reached with any conventional weapons. Again, the threat of having weapons that can penetrate these bunkers may be of more use than the weapons themselves, as they would deter anyone from building these bunkers in the first place. But if a conflict were to erupt, and another nation used weapons of mass destruction first, the U.S. should have the ability to eliminate that threat at minimal risk to American soldiers...