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...they have enjoyed until now; appeal procedures will be streamlined; access to benefit payments restricted; and holding centers built to house asylum seekers while their claims are being processed. But even if these measures are implemented next year as promised, it's by no means certain that they will deter migrants. Sangatte itself is proof of how attractive passage to the U.K. remains. The Sangatte center opened in September 1999 to cope with Kosovar refugees from the Yugoslav war, who had been sleeping out in Calais parks and trying to stow away on cross-Channel ferries. Since then, the huge...
Second, a keg ban will not limit the amount of alcohol students will consume, but it will change the delivery systems. Yes, students will drink just as much from bottles or cans, which though they cost more, will not deter more alcohol consumption...
...ASIF ALI ZARDARI, 46, husband of self-exiled Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto who has been in jail on corruption charges since 1996, to visit his ailing mother for three days; in Karachi. The temporary freedom may be a show of leniency as President Pervez Musharraf's government attempts to deter Bhutto's powerful Pakistan People's Party from allying with Islamic fundamentalists to form a coalition government...
...that a few terrorist attacks and street demonstrations are going to deter the U.S. Behind-the-lines harassment is unlikely present a serious tactical challenge to any invasion plan, and no matter how intense the rage on the Arab street, none of the traditionally pro-U.S. regimes in the Middle East world are currently challenged by a movement organizationally capable of seizing power. But fear of instability among Arab regimes continues to fuel an aversion to a war. And also, given that most are resigned to the inevitability of a war and are not about to break their longstanding...
...improvement. The Undergraduate Council is tackling bigger and bolder initiatives; setting higher standards for ourselves; and witnessing greater success. Obviously such progress will be accompanied by disappointments and will face difficult hurdles. Still, such setbacks—not even The Crimson’s editorials—will deter the Harvard Undergraduate Council from striving ever harder to improve student life...