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...1980s. Rumsfeld also chaired a bipartisan commission in 1998 set up by Congress to assess the pace of rogue states' missile efforts, which concluded that the CIA wouldn't be able to gather intelligence quickly enough to meet the unseen threats posed by Iran, Iraq and North Korea. That dire prediction--reinforced by a North Korean missile launch a month later--turbocharged the nation's push to build a $100 billion missile shield, now under construction...
...Harvard’s problems with the recruitment and retention of female professors are not much more dire than those of its peer institutions...
...three major theater groups, announced last winter that financial woes would force it to close down at the end of the season--before $1.5 million was raised at the last minute to keep it going for at least another season. The Seattle Rep, across town, is in less dire straits, but will still have to reduce staff and cut its roster of plays from nine to six next season. These pressures could increase the danger that regionals will shy away from risky fare, in favor of tried-and-true revivals, or new works that might have the prospect...
...bombings, expected advances by Morocco's two Islamic parties led the government to postpone nationwide local elections slated for June. Moroccan democracy might be further undermined if foreign tourists and investors steer clear of the country and deprive it of resources needed to battle poverty. That "would have dire consequences for everyone," warns André Azoulay, an adviser to Mohammed VI. "It would demonstrate that Western examples of democracy, plurality and economic modernity couldn't be applied to the world's most progressive Arab state - and indeed aren't compatible with Arab society. The only people who would benefit from...
...instead reconfirm the streak of selfish recklessness that was equally evident in his sexual risk taking? If the facts of his health had been known in 1960, of course, Kennedy never would have been elected President. This was a man who, three times before Dallas, had been in such dire physical condition that he was given the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church. The presidential biographer Richard Reeves has remarked that "in a lifetime of medical torment, Kennedy was more promiscuous with physicians and drugs than he was with women...