Word: gainful
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...Israel - more likely, not less. "If the United States has any chance of persuading Israel not to take matters into its own hands, it will only be if the world presents a united front on sanctions that actually mean something," says the official. "China," he continues, "has much to gain by doing the right thing." Don't be surprised if it does...
...Sadie in Paris, we're probably not really interested." How about listening in on what a political rival is up to or TIME'S next big story about the Administration? If there is no judicial oversight of eavesdropping, how can the President be prevented from using it for personal gain? Do the American people really have that much trust in the Bush Administration after the lies about the reasons for the war in Iraq? It is not news that the U.S. has no respect for civil liberties outside the U.S., but what comes as a surprise is that there...
...diplomacy with the Russians and the Chinese is very intense," says a key official. Rice, scheduled to travel to London next week for a conference on Afghanistan, may stop first in Moscow for talks with Russian officials. She needs Moscow's backing to win Beijing's--and ultimately to gain Iran's compliance. As for a step four to the strategy, there is no clear one yet: an uncooperative frog is something nobody wants to talk about...
...these state police powers, should be subject to the same standards that apply to any other police force in the Commonwealth. The Crimson is not seeking access to these records so that it will be able to publish sensitive personal information about specific individuals. Instead, we are seeking to gain a better sense of, among other important issues, the frequency of sexual abuse and racial profiling on campus. These are matters that concern all members of the Harvard community. Without access to incident reports compiled by HUPD officers (as opposed to the heavily-filtered police logs that, at present, represent...
...Most insurgent groups in Iraq are loath to target women because they know it would gain them no public sympathy. If anything, ordinary Iraqis (even those who sympathize with the insurgency) regard such kidnappers with contempt. That's one of the reasons why groups that have kidnapped women have tended to adopt new and obscure names - they don't want their real names tainted by association...