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...dilemma over whether to green-light the system. The New York Times reported Friday that Pentagon documents reveal that the military's testing of the proposed $60 billion missile system are designed to allow the interceptor "kill vehicle" to hit its target despite a basic flaw: its inability to distinguish between a real warhead and decoys that would be routinely deployed in any missile attack...
...distinguish between them is to imagine that racially and culturally diverse citizens and residents are not really integral to the country. But to affirm the diversity as basic to our self definition as Americans also affirms our pride in the liberal democratic traditions of this country," she wrote in April...
...would have been easy to fill 24 hours with proven favorites. "People told me, 'The only things you can do are what you've already made a success of,'" Lee says. "Mysteries, classic dramas, maybe the more conservative sitcoms from PBS." Instead BBC America opted to distinguish itself with shows "closer to the new Beetle than to the Jaguar: vibrant, contemporary, different." While the network is not yet rated by Nielsen, it's the edgier programming--running in blocks called Cool Britannia and the Britcom Zone--that has inspired a dedicated audience following and critical praise. But the channel also...
First of all, final clubs no longer distinguish on the basis of class. All male students who are accepted to a club can participate; financial provisions are made for members who do not have enough money to pay monthly fees. Final clubs are exclusive in the sense that only males are eligible to become members, and women are probably hypocritical to partake in an institution where they are second class citizens in this day and age. Oppenheim also fails to mention the rise of female social clubs including the Bee and the Seneca. Furthermore, there is discussion among some final...
...spot by reporters Monday, Senator Lott was at pains to distinguish between trade with China, of which he's an enthusiastic advocate, and trade with Cuba, which he firmly opposes. Cuba "is the only remaining communist country in the world except for North Korea," Lott maintained, and "Castro has shown no repentance; he's running a dictatorship, a repressive dictatorship." There is, of course, no disputing the argument that China's communist leadership has, over two decades of trade with the U.S., enthusiastically embraced economic reform, while Cuba's has for the most part fiercely resisted it even while welcoming...