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...member states to cut off trade and financial dealings with Iraq. Only nine days later, George Bush said in a speech at the Pentagon, "Sanctions are working." But last month Secretary of State James Baker was telling the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, "They haven't worked." Behind this seeming flip-flop were differing interpretations of what it means for sanctions to work...
Fears of war and recession dampen holiday spirits. -- The states struggle to balance their budgets. -- A controversial flip-flop over minority scholarships greets a new Education Secretary...
...scholarship imbroglio so visibly unbalanced Bush -- and so glaringly spotlighted the Administration's inept handling of civil rights -- that it all but eclipsed Alexander's generally well-received nomination. The drama hurtled Administration officials into a rushed series of consultations. Result: a policy flip that flopped spectacularly. Civil rights leaders blasted the White House for threatening to slam expensive college doors in the faces of under- represented minority students. Conservative critics lambasted the decision for its failure to reject unambiguously racial preferences of any kind...
...adventures of a creature so gruesome that snakes get poisoned when they bite him. But fate is kind: one bad day he meets the most hideous princess in the kingdom, and they live horribly ever after. Just what he wanted -- and so will any reader who appreciates the flip side of a classic fairy tale...
Yale won the flip and chose to receive, and the first quarter was all downhill for Harvard from there...