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...committee has offered students so far is a pathetic fig leaf: a one-hour meeting with a dozen members of the Undergraduate Council on November 18. No other students will be allowed to attend. It's doubtful that specific candidates will be discussed. And given the late winter deadline for the final choice, it's unlikely that many more--if any--such meetings with student leaders will be held...
...further provocation from Iraq -- an invasion of Saudi Arabia, the killing of Western hostages or some other horror -- it may fall to the Kuwaiti Emir to request that the United Nations act militarily. The collective-security provisions embodied in the U.N. Charter's Article 51 could provide the legal fig leaf for an internationally sanctioned war against Iraq while preserving at least some element of tactical surprise...
...Steinbrenner, 60, choose perpetual exile into irrelevance over a two-year sentence? The commissioner guesses that Steinbrenner believed the fig leaf of continuing as a silent partner in the Yankees would allow him to hang on to his other sports post as a vice president of the U.S. Olympic Committee. But that is a dubious proposition, since there are already loud rumbles within the Olympic Committee that Steinbrenner will be pressured to resign. Deciphering Steinbrenner's motivations has never been easy, since there is always a peculiar disconnection between his words and his deeds. But last week he was uncharacteristically...
...what proposals? Democrats wanted to use the dread T word somewhere in the statement, but their counterparts preferred something fuzzier. Everyone concurred on "increased tax revenues" in the wan hope, on the White House side, that this compromise might put a fig leaf over what was being said...
Until now Democrats have counterbalanced their inability to elect a President by winning a majority in the Congress and in statehouses, but with elections in three Sunbelt states in jeopardy, they run the risk of losing that fig leaf of respectability. For sheer survival, Democrats should try to join the grownups' table and put an end to their days of sibling rivalry. In Florida some party elders, torn between their early commitment to Nelson and a desire to get behind Chiles, are hoping Nelson will drop out in time to run for re-election to his House seat. The deadline...