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...principal flaw in the University's gradual shift to electronic security is the limited access it offers to student residences. In short, students' card keys permit them to gain entry to their own houses, but to no others...
...burden of decision lies with NATO again. Yet the most powerful military alliance in the world shows no signs of being ready to actually prevent the Serbs form taking Gorazde. Rather, the focus is still on somehow convincing the Serbs to come back to the negotiating table. The flaw in this strategy is manifest: why should the Serbs negotiate when they can take their prize at very low cost? The West still insists on treating the Serbs as wayward youths rather than the war criminals they...
...finds himself in that same prosecutor's cross hairs, which is sure to launch widespread speculation about what character flaw got him there. The cool impatience that helped lead to his removal last May as White House communications director is not reserved merely for the Fourth Estate. Says an Administration colleague who claims to both like and respect him, "George sometimes gets this look on his face like you're wasting his time talking to him. He's brilliant, but he doesn't know everything." Of course, he may not know that. And accurately or no, many continue to feel...
Even if the ambiguities that attend this second property are cleared up, the application of this guideline will still lead those who would have used their preferred but now prohibited epithets to employ disguised or new versions of their hateful words. This obvious consequence is a major flaw in the Law School's attempt to legislate sensitivity: it tries to address selected symptoms of racism at the expense of personal liberties, as if doing so would end the racism that causes those symptoms...
...runway, the summary firing of the travel staff, the use of the FBI to investigate the travel operation. "The Clinton message is 'I'm pure,' " said a veteran of the Reagan White House, " 'I'm above the law.' It's almost Nixonian. And it's a tragic flaw...