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...start with Blair--not the Blair of today, but the Blair of 1999. Back then, the British leader was supporting the U.S. in a different war, in Kosovo. Remember Kosovo? It was fought without U.N. approval against a dictator, Slobodan Milosevic, who, while slaughtering his own people, posed no direct threat to the U.S. Had NATO's campaign failed, it would have been Clinton and Blair who looked like reckless ideologues. But it worked. And Blair made it the centerpiece of a new foreign policy creed, which he called the "doctrine of international community...
...afford it. (The Republican number was 20 points higher). Almost two-thirds of Democrats (compared with less than one-third of Republicans) told CBS in December, "The United States should mind its own business internationally and let other countries get along as best they can." That's about as direct a refutation of the Blairite creed...
...Harvard began holding one-on-one meetings with studio execs trying to change that, and last year the Motion Picture Association of America flung the door open, inviting Bloom to make a presentation in February to all the studios. Harvard's advice was direct: Get the butts entirely out, or at least make smoking unappealing...
...policing. "I have an invitation in my drawer here to go to the Caribbean for four or five days with my wife, all expenses paid, just to go listen to a student-loan lender," says Dan Davenport, financial-aid director at the University of Idaho, which remains dedicated to direct lending. "There's such big money at stake that people are willing to do many different things to get that piece...
...move could force them out of the market. "We make less than half a percent on a guaranteed loan," says Tom Joyce, spokesman for Sallie Mae, the nation's largest student-loan company. "You do the math." And there is a renewed effort to get more schools into direct lending, which costs taxpayers an estimated $7.50 less for every $100 disbursed, compared with private loans. Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy is pushing a bill that rewards colleges for switching to the cheaper of the two lending systems by giving them additional need-based aid--a setup, many in higher education note...