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...That would be a situation the U.S. could ill afford. Typically, terrorist groups comprise people bound by geography, political injury, even bloodlines. Since U.S. agencies find it almost impossible to penetrate such tight-knit networks, they must rely on defectors for the information they need to help pre-empt attacks and prosecute known terrorists...
...have been partly to pre-empt those lines of attack that the Whitney show, which was organized by the photography historian Jane Livingston, includes hardly any of Avedon's fashion photography. And there is something valuable about looking at Avedon's work apart from what we know about the charmed kid who blew into the offices of Harper's Bazaar in the late 1940s and set the superexotic Dovima against a trio of dancing pachyderms. Nevertheless, Avedon the mordant portraitist cannot be understood without reference to Avedon the fashion photographer. From his work for Harper's and Vogue he learned...
...Tiananmen protests in 1989, freeing former Peking University student Wang Dan, 23, four months before the end of his four-year sentence and paroling graduate student Guo Haifeng, 27, three months early. Why the leniency? Because such gestures might help Beijing attract the Olympics in 2000 and pre-empt moves by the Clinton Administration to link human rights with the granting of most- favored-nation trade status...
...networks have kept their affiliates in line by arguing that any short-term economic gain is outweighed by the value of keeping the network strong. Only two of the 196 stations running Deep Space Nine are using it to pre-empt network fare. "I think most affiliates are still very supportive of the network-affiliate relationship," says John von Soosten, vice president of Katz Television Group, a station representative. "But if a handful of affiliates pre-empt and they're successful, the natural tendency for a station is to say, 'Gee, maybe that would work in my market.' " And that...
...invitation for new members of Congress to meet in Omaha on Nov. 23 to fashion a House reform agenda. Even though Huening may not win, both parties are rattled by the notion. House aides deny any connection with the Huening summit, but Speaker Tom Foley will effectively pre-empt the powwow by traveling next weekend to Los Angeles, Atlanta and Chicago to meet with all Democratic winners. His agenda: new committee assignments and (coincidentally?) reforms...