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...each made more catastrophic by individual instances of horrendous decision making. But with the country already on high alert about the possibility of terrorist attacks against soft civilian targets, the proximity of last week's events added to the sense of insecurity. They also raised new questions about the extent to which safety regulations at the country's nightclubs are going unenforced. Robert Plotkin, president of the National Bar & Restaurant Association, says, "The fact that these types of incidents are so rare may lull operators into this sense that safety regulations are not terribly important...
...George W. Bush thinks it is the job of the U.S. to eliminate brutal dictators. America's foreign policy has often supported these same brutal dictators--including Saddam--when they have been on "our side." Bush's use of the word evil comes close to being evil--to the extent that it gives this war a religious justification (which Christians should resist). For Christians, the proper home for the language of evil is the liturgy: it is God who deals with evil, and it's presumptuous for humans to assume that our task is to do what only...
UConn has chosen to rely on the proportionality test, and to a large extent, it has proved successful. But it has taken years and lots of careful diplomacy to balance the scales. In 1995 Lew Perkins commissioned an evaluation to see how the athletic department was faring. "I wanted to make sure we were doing things the right way," he says. It was also a time when the school was attempting to upgrade its football team to Division 1A status, which would mean adding 22 scholarships for men. Perkins learned that although women made up 51% of the undergraduate population...
...some extent, Hope says, today’s HLS students—both female and male— have an easier time...
...that its range exceeds the 93-mile limit set by the UN in 1991. (A number of technical specifications also exceed UN limits in ways that prompt Blix's team to suspect it may simply be version 2.0 of a planned long-range Iraqi missile.) The fact that the extent of the al-Samoud 2's infraction is reportedly no more than about 30 miles may indeed give it little significance to Iraq's current strategic capability, but Dr. Blix is insisting on upholding the letter...