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...with a prostitute. NATURALIZED. VICTOR ARITOMI, 64, former Peruvian envoy to Japan and brother-in-law of ex-President Alberto Fujimori, as a Japanese citizen; in Tokyo. Aritomi, who gave up Japanese citizenship 10 years ago, is now shielded from standing trial for allegedly helping Fujimori divert $15 million as a "golden parachute" payment to spymaster Vladimiro Montesinos. ELECTED. JACQUES ROGGE, 59, as president of the International Olympic Committee; in Moscow. A Belgian-born orthopedic surgeon and three-time Olympic sailor, he will oversee i.o.c. reforms in light of the Salt Lake City bribery scandal...
...other factors. Such degradation can be irreversible. As industry, tourism and farming place greater stress on coastal areas in particular - and groundwater levels decline - "water wars" are becoming internal. Hundreds of thousands of Spaniards recently took to the streets of Madrid and Barcelona to protest government plans to divert the country's largest river, the Ebro, to supply water to the southeast. Marcelino Iglesias, president of the regional government in northeastern Aragón, through which the Ebro flows, has denounced the plan as "aiming at an absolutely unsustainable model of development ... while consolidating a second-class Spain...
...largest experiment of all, California voters last November passed Proposition 36. Modeled after a vanguard policy in Arizona (see box), it is expected to divert some 100,000 first- and second-time drug offenders from prisons into rehab over the next three years. "California's Proposition 36 highlights the disgust many feel for our current system," says Rocky Anderson, the Democratic mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah, which has been dealing with a spate of heroin overdose deaths. "Punitive policies, at tremendous taxpayer expense, are an unmitigated failure." Anderson and like-minded officials are sending a message to the White...
...military-industrial complex, you see, has reared its bloody head with renewed vengeance. But big-hearted professors of The Rights of Man need not despair just yet, if only we can divert some of the war-mongering wampum from bombers, battleships and other things armies generally need to—dum-da-da-dee-DUM!—a beefed-up force of permanent peacekeepers...
Harvard was wise to refrain from joining this coalition. Its first priority for instruction must be those on campus—graduates, undergrads and Extension school students. Harvard should not divert its teaching efforts to for-credit instruction of those off campus with whom interaction will necessarily be limited...