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...might pass and lead to the draft’s reinstatement were so common that the House Republican leadership—which strongly opposes a draft—moved to suspend the rules and pass H.R. 163, just to show the vast margin by which it would fail...
...rest of the world, meanwhile, seems inclined to do even less. Despite the Sudanese government's unwillingness to rein in the Janjaweed, the Bush Administration has so far failed to persuade the U.N. Security Council to impose sanctions on Khartoum. After 18 months of atrocities in Sudan, the international community has yet to take a single punitive action against the Sudanese government. Opposition to sanctions has come from Arab countries that are sympathetic to Khartoum and from Security Council members, such as Pakistan and China, that are heavily invested in Sudan's emerging oil industry. That has forced...
...extroverted and rambunctious bohemian socialite, Guy is the wide-eyed British schoolboy with a conscience, and Mia is the long-suffering martyr who has made it through the school of hard knocks and is turning around to take another long lap. Even real-life lovebirds Theron and Townsend fail to make their on-screen relationship believable. It’s impossible to either identify or sympathize with their tumultuous affair...
...because the Crimson’s most immediate opponents in the Ivy League run pro-set offenses similar to Murphy’s—not option sets—familiarity will be lacking. Should a single player fail to make an appropriate read, the entire defense will be left vulnerable...
DIED. HARVEY WHEELER, 85, political scientist who in 1962 co-authored the best-selling novel Fail-Safe,about an accidental nuclear attack on the Soviet Union; in Carpinteria, Calif. A native of Waco, Texas, he was also the author of political-science books and, as a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, did pioneering research on health care...