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Most universities have no immediate plans to stop asking for SAT scores. But at those schools that were having second thoughts about the test, Atkinson's stance will embolden anti- SAT forces. "It's gutsy," says Florida International University admissions chief Carmen Brown, "and a lot of other places will follow." The College Board, which oversees the SAT, was worried enough after the speech to e-mail colleges a defense of its test...
...Most universities have no immediate plans to stop asking for SAT scores. But at those schools that were having second thoughts about the test, Atkinson's stance will embolden anti- SAT forces. "It's gutsy," says Florida International University admissions chief Carmen Brown, "and a lot of other places will follow." The College Board, which oversees the SAT, was worried enough after the speech to e-mail colleges a defense of its test...
...wonder some Atlanticists despair of the next four years. ?I?m pessimistic about this,? says one American diplomat. ?I think it?s going to be ugly.? In the worst case, American unilateralism will embolden anti-American forces in the E.U. and result in petty feuds between the two continents. But there?s a more hopeful outcome. Champions of a more integrated, autonomous E.U. have long traded on fears that, as a U.S. diplomat puts it, ?America is going to eat our lunch unless we get cracking.? Now Europeans have the opportunity to move beyond such laments about American hyperpuissance...
...tyrant, arguing that it is often effective only when combined with strong sanctions and, occasionally, force. Among the strongest critics of the U.S. program in Serbia was Vojislav Kostunica, who publicly scorned Western money as outside interference (though his coalition partners were big recipients). And using cash to embolden an opposition can be a tricky business, especially if it slips into support for covert action. Critics say the millions the U.S. has dumped on the troubled Iraqi opposition in exile have produced no results...
...Rick Lazio's Sept. 23 agreement to refrain from the use of unregulated "soft-money" contributions to their Senate campaigns in New York. No candidate would voluntarily refrain from using such contributions without a belief that the public wants big money out of politics. The agreement should therefore embolden politicians to call for the elimination of soft money in their campaigns as part of campaign finance reform. The thorny issues that still threaten the New York agreement, however, will pose equally strong barriers to reform at the national level...