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...will probably give the inspections more time--but only a little more--before insisting on a final decision. The President will use the time to try again to make the strongest case for war, in hopes of still bringing old allies aboard. But at heart the Administration thinks the furor won't do more than delay the inevitable. As a senior adviser to Bush once put it, "The way to win international acceptance is to win. That's diplomacy: winning." --Reported by J.F.O. McAllister/London, James Graff and Nicholas Le Quesne/Paris, Marguerite Michaels/United Nations and Massimo Calabresi/Washington
...take out at retirement depends on how their investments perform.) Experts remain unconvinced that such moves will solve long-term problems. "That solution is a very slow burn," says Raj Mody of U.K. actuaries Hewitt, Bacon & Woodrow. "All you're doing is addressing past promises." Much of the current furor over U.K. pensions grew out of a recently introduced accounting standard, FRS 17, which requires U.K. firms to disclose their pension-fund assets and liabilities. Some fund managers note that FRS 17 numbers differ from longer-term actuarial calculations, and complain that the annually reported standard is short-sighted; after...
Lesson: it pays to get paid like the boss. What's possible? Despite a recent furor, "loans that might eventually be forgiven are still on the table," says Peter Hillman, a partner at Chadbourne & Parke, a New York City compensation law firm. Likely candidates for loans include sales execs, who may land a sign-on bonus too. Also on the table for V.P.s and up: club memberships, private-school tuition and a relocation deal that puts cash in your pocket...
...military might, even in the face of such unsettling news as North Korea's attempt to assemble nuclear weapons. And the process isn't likely to speed up soon, in part because any dramatic move to create a full-fledged military with significant offensive capabilities would cause a diplomatic furor. Such a move would also require the tacit blessing of China?hardly likely as long as Koizumi continues to indulge in provocations like visiting the Yasukuni Shrine. Further-more, Japan already labors under a government debt that tops 130% of GDP, giving it scant fiscal justification for a military buildup...
...scientists who work on cloning, the stakes are particularly high. The continued furor in this country over non-reproductive cloning stems primarily from a mystical belief in “potential life” held by some bioethicists and abortion-obsessed politicians. The usual line of argument is that human embryos outside of a woman deserve protection as “potential” human beings. An apt analogy would be selling a lump of graphite for the price of a diamond because it has the potential (under extreme heat and pressure) to become a diamond. But by stirring...